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JBuck - there have been several postings recently of modern emulators for various ancient peripherals. The Raspberry Pi Pico 2040 chip and other tiny computers are fast enough to pretend to be almost anything. Here's one for you - it plugs an SD card into a standard IBM PC floppy controller. https://blog.adafruit.com/2021/11/1...ing-arduino/ -----Burton 50 year / Life / Emeritus ANA member (joined 12/1/1973) Life member: Numismatics International, CONECA Member: TNA, FtWCC, NETCC, OnLine Coin Club Owned by four cats and a wife of 40 years (joined 1983) |
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It used to be quite popular to design and create websites that used the .asp format. Asp (ASP.NET) was very popular in the Microsoft eco-system (IIS - Internet Information Server) as a way to create pages that went beyond dumb HTML. This site is still running on what eventually became known as "Classic ASP", which was the original platform released by Microsoft. These pages end in .asp. ASP.NET was the successor platform released by Microsoft - you will see pages ending in .aspx for those. In fairly standard Microsoft fashion, there was no real migration path from .asp to .aspx short of re-writing the application. I wrote a ton of Classic ASP back in the late 90s to early 2000s. Some of it is still running the company I retired from last year. I loved coding in Classic ASP; it was fast and simple to build interactive web pages. I get what Microsoft was trying to do with ASP.NET but I never really cared for it and as an organization, we chose to move away from it and into Java-based platforms. Powerful but waaaaay more complicated than good old ASP.
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Bedrock of the Community
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Looks like they wrote off the Windows 7 wifi connections. The computer works fine. It just can't connect to o me home WiFi.
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Do you have the ability to connect directly with a LAN cable?
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Pillar of the Community
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Looks like they wrote off the Windows 7 wifi connections. The computer works fine. It just can't connect to o me home WiFi. Did you try any of the things in the youtube video I posted?
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BTW as long as this came back due to the where is Coop question... The oldest computer I ever used was this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monrobot_XI My High School was not the original owner, it was a hand-me-down that they got working at great expense for about 3 days. I think the one program I ran was in Fortran II. We then switched to Dartmouth Timesharing through a Teletype and an acoustic coupler. I had a small claim to fame in school as I could whistle an "a" character. -----Burton 50 year / Life / Emeritus ANA member (joined 12/1/1973) Life member: Numismatics International, CONECA Member: TNA, FtWCC, NETCC, OnLine Coin Club Owned by four cats and a wife of 40 years (joined 1983) |
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I wonder if he just tried to use a small USB WiFi thing.
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I suggested that on page one.
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Bedrock of the Community
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Shame that a simple issue like this should keep Dr. coop off the forum.
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... Can't say the same for my TRS-80 with 4K RAM. Ah yes, the "Trash 80". I think this was the first and last time creating some very simple code for estimating. Maybe the early 80's? BTW- I've rather enjoyed seeing some basic "foreign" language in this thread. Your adherence to your tried and true computers reminds me of my sister and her writing and creative endeavors. She keeps her old computers up, running, and off the internet.
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We need to consume them regularly to thrive and grow.
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She keeps her old computers up, running, and off the internet. It has been a long time since my C128 or Amiga 500 were online. If I had to guess, 1993 maybe 1994 when the last local BBS went away. I do not have a landline now, so dial-up is out of the question. In the way back I tried to get the Amiga onto my LAN, but it never really worked correctly. Forever air-gapped they remain. 
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It has been a long time since my C128 or Amiga 500 were online. If I had to guess, 1993 maybe 1994 when the last local BBS went away. I do not have a landline now, so dial-up is out of the question. In the way back I tried to get the Amiga onto my LAN, but it never really worked correctly. Forever air-gapped they remain. Nice, I still have an Tandy (first ever window), an Tivoli, a Commodore, @ Matrox sigle and dual Risc proccesor, IBM 1986 and an MacIn Tosh 1989. All function well and is funny to see and look for time to time. Also I have a large collection of Microprocessors from different compagnies. The Amiga I have seem to give up so need some work or time from my part. Jbuck, I miss the BBS LOL, was so fun in time. Hack tel lines of neighbors to connect. In time you has to pay any minute LOL, and as student in DC was cost alot and my father pay the fees for the scool master degree and the housing, so have to hack to live decently. what a nice times. I will try to contact Coop to see.
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