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No Serial Ports

I haven’t posted in months, six months in fact. I had a problem develop a couple of months ago with AdtPro.  It stopped recognizing the serial ports. The problem seemed to be with Java so over time, I uninstalled Java

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Apple II/Raspberry PI Case

I went to tweet my last post and saw a tweet from yesterbits with a link to this site: https://www.etsy.com/listing/188160742/apple-ii-raspberry-pi-case which sells an Apple II/Rasberry PI case.  If you look at all the pictures, there is one showing this case

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One Year (4/26)

It’s been a year since I started this blog.  In that year I’ve posted 294 articles which is short of my intended goal for daily posts.  That means I’ve missed about 2 and a half months of posts. In addition to

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The New Apple II User’s Guide by David Finnigan.

The New Apple II User’s Guide by David Finnigan. I started this post last May  (05-May-13) and never could write what I felt was a thorough and fair review.  I didn’t have any thing against the book, quite the opposite,

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UA 6502

I was looking at some tweets that I follow and noticed one from Steve Wozniak that he was arriving on flight UA 6502 (March 21).  I just thought there was some irony there.  

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Spring Thing 2014

Once again I have missed entering the Spring Thing.  For several years I have thought about entering, but always seem to miss the deadline.  The Spring Thing is an annual Interactive Fiction competition. I had forgotten about it until I

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ProDOS Program Selectors

I was reading csa2 yesterday and somebody called Harry Potter was asking about a ProDOS program selector. It started me thinking.  In the past, if I wanted a program selector, I wrote a quick and dirty Applesoft program and saved

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Oops!

I had yesterdays post all written and thought I had posted it.  Tonight when I came on to work on this post, I found I hadn’t posted it.  Now I have. I spent the last couple of hours looking specifically

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Name That Game

A couple of days ago I dropped off some stuff at the Good Will Store and swung around the electronics area like I usually do when I get a chance. I found a UPS in the box with all the

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Happy New Year

In the Eastern Time Zone, where I am, its just minutes after 9 pm.  I’m not going to be awake for midnight as I have to work at 4:30 am. I would like to say thanks for reading and commenting

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