[Coco] Preserving old CoCo diskettes...

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 29 May 2010, wdg3rd at comcast.net wrote:
>----- "Gene Heskett" <gene.heskett at verizon.net> wrote:
>> And thats the best reason I can think of to not mess with mess, there
>> is a
>> real live coco3 with a 63C09 & 2 megs of ram in it that is just a
>> session of
>> minicom and  about 20 feet of cable away in the basement.
>>
>> Humm, but now I'm not running as root, and I need to change the perms
>> on
>> /dev/ttyS# stuff.  It won't let gene access it. Paranoid %^$@&&.  That
>> will
>> get fixed shortly...
>
>Fixed as in by a mechanic or fixed as in by a veterinarian

Mechanic style.

>(that tomcat
> wasn't broken)?  (My servers are in the basement, my workstations are in
> the attic, after a few dozen troubleshooting trips up and down four
> flights of stairs I regularly get the urge to fix things like a
> veterinarian).  (Every few weeks I get the urge to switch back to reading
> books instead of mucking with computers -- several tons of books in this
> attic, and a few hundred pounds I haven't read more than once).
>
>My normal security setting is paranoid schizophrenia.  Let them fight it
> out between themselves.

Yup, just leave me out of it.  dd-wrt sees to that for me.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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