{"id":2443,"date":"2020-06-25T20:27:11","date_gmt":"2020-06-26T04:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/?p=2443"},"modified":"2020-06-25T20:28:42","modified_gmt":"2020-06-26T04:28:42","slug":"creaky-old-weirdos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/creaky-old-weirdos\/","title":{"rendered":"Creaky Old Weirdos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friends,<\/p>\n<p>An update on <i>Le Mus\u00e9e des Ordinateurs Anciens<\/i>: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Toshiba that caught fire after I soldered on the battery jumper backwards&mdash;in my defense, the battery terminals were mislabeled&mdash;is still on hold. Once burned, twice shy, I suppose.<\/li>\n<li>The Toshiba Satellite I started work on has a bad and expensive to fix display, so that&#8217;s on hold for a bit as well.<\/li>\n<li>But look here! The old Amiga 1200 is working! Sorta!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I cleaned up the Amiga after it spent some unfortunate time in the garage and it started right up. Its whopping 170 megabyte hard drive made a lot of clicking and clacking noises, but didn&#8217;t boot the machine. Time for a new hard drive.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily, there&#8217;s a seller in the UK that sells brand new CompactFlash cards with the Amiga Workbench installed, and the hardware needed to hook it all up. I ordered it up and it arrived a month later. Can&#8217;t wait to see how the old gal runs after all this time.<\/p>\n<p>BTW, got a spare a 72-pin 128 MB SIMM laying around? I&#8217;ll trade you a box of double density floppy disks.<\/p>\n<p>Stay safe. Wear a mask, please.<\/p>\n<p>Your pal,<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; bob<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friends, An update on Le Mus\u00e9e des Ordinateurs Anciens: The Toshiba that caught fire after I soldered on the battery jumper backwards&mdash;in my defense, the battery terminals were mislabeled&mdash;is still on hold. Once burned, twice shy, I suppose. The Toshiba Satellite I started work on has a bad and expensive to fix display, so that&#8217;s &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/creaky-old-weirdos\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Creaky Old Weirdos&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2442,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,51,64,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genius","category-gizmos","category-housekeeping","category-tech"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_5150.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2443"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2445,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443\/revisions\/2445"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}