Seasons Greetings and All That

[Tom Droege <tdroege@veriomail.com>]

I suppose the reason the list is so quiet is that you are all busy 
analyzing data.  ;^)

Personally, I am suffering from "Talking Head" withdrawal.

I have had that nice new Sony monitor sitting on my desk waiting for a 
Linux system for several weeks.  So I finally had Dan bring up an old 
computer from the basement.  It is a "WOW" 15 MHz system.  It even has 
Windows.  It is the last system used to run the Mark III.  Lots of data 
still on it.   I notice that I took 80 MBytes one evening.  One of the two 
disks has 400 MBytes of space.  Sigh!  It is only 3 or 4 years old.  I was 
unable to run Windows.  I could not find a mouse to plug into the 25 pin 
serial connector.  I dug through my junk bin and found 25 to 9 pin 
converters, but the wrong sex.  Seems to me that I have had this problem 
before.  Yep, just looked.  I made one a while back.  So I will have Dan 
copy it.

OK, Dan is here working and MIKE is up on the "Next to Deliver" test 
stand.  Dan is wiring up the power supply on CHRIS/GLENN.  This is the 
GLENN system with CHRIS side plates on it until I can have side plates made 
with the correct pattern.

Someone asked that I put up a "what we did last year" and "what we are 
going to do next year" summary.  I only have data since August when the 
other computer quit working.  But it looks like I can go through the tass 
file that Michael keeps.

Tom Drdoege