Hi all, I was laid low the last couple of weeks with another horrible chest infection. As a Brit living in a tropical climate, it seems I have finally acquired the tree-pollen allergy that all people who move here seem to get after 3-4 years. This causes me to be vulnerable to whatever's around, and since the allergy started, I have had 7 severe chest infections in 6 months. It's really beaten me down, but now I'm tackling the root cause, hopefully that will stop!
I haven't done any programming in that whole time. I was struggling a bit with the ATC sim - mostly speed issues at native QL speed. I have now decided that the sim simply won't run on native speed QLs, since almost everyone has access to something faster. Also, my US QL PSU died (transformer internal fault) so I am a little stuck until I find/make a replacement PSU. I have worked it with my ATX power controller prototype and +5v right into the regulator socket, but serial and microdrives are dead in that arrangement so it is of limited use! I'm open to suggestions on where to get a replacement transformer, or for simple designs for a PSU that gives the correct AC output too. I spent the money I was going to use for getting PCBs and components paying the medical bills for the infection, so everything there will be held back by a few weeks. Got to love the American healthcare system. $120 x-rays and $25 antibiotics... And that's with insurance. Finally, I regained the energy to start doing things then found my web server had died - a PCB issue. I am building a new server from spares I have laying around. I'm not treating it as "urgent" so it may be a few days before my websites are back up. Unfortunately, it looks like when the PCB died it spent some time writing garbage to the drives, so I see a backup restore in my near future. So, that's updates in my life. How are you all doing? Dave _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
