Saturday ======== Location: Computer room at home, Ostrava city, Czech Republic Computer: IRIX indigo 5.3 11091810 IP12 mips Visual: messy desk and EIZO screen connected to the Indigo I'm running my IRIS Indigo and reading Gopher pages (and some WWW ones, too) in the Netscape Navigator 3.0.1. At the moment I have some 30 Netscape windows opened (the browser tabs have been invented long after the Netscape became moribund). I have also some other applications running: the vCal (a simple but nice calendar program), a bunch of SGI terminals, the gVim (I'm writing this text in in) and so. MP3 playback (there is the mpg123) is feasible only for low bitrates, of course. Also spelling in gVim should be turned off if the mpg123 is running :-( There is a all-country quarantine in the Czech Republic. So most of shops are closed, schools and universities are closed for pupils/students (universities are not fully closed but most of university workers and researchers were told to work from home, if possible). So I'm at home from March 12. My wife works at different university so she is at home too. Fortunately, we have enough computers and computers desks for both of us. ;-) Yesterday we were on a short trip in a remote area. It was in the area between two water reservoirs where is virtually no infrastructure. The area is not totally forbidden (one can move here if he/she does not leave the road or marked track) but there are pubs or other things which can attract people. So we saw 10 people in 5 hours (I expected less people here). Almost all of them had covered face (it is mandatory here during this pandemic situation). It looked strange but it's probably better (local authorities assume that any face cover can limit spreading of corona virus to some extend so it is better than nothing). Today afternoon I plan to continue my works on building of a 3D printer. I'm still trying to assemble the electronic (add all the cables which control drives and so - and I'm so bad in soldering!). I don't think that it will be finished today but I will try to do at least something. Yesterday I have played with my latest toy - a CYCLONE floppy drive for the PSION Series 3. I actually don't like the Purple Software File Manager (the Purple Software is seller of the floppy - I assume that the device was designed mainly to promote their software). I have followed installation instructions but the File Manager always hangs and says something about incorrect system drive. So I removed it and use the standard system facilities to copy and manage files. It works as expected (the Purple Software did excellent work in making the floppy drive to behave as a normal PSION SSD disk). I also have tried to set u a standing desk with a PSION Series 3a with a metal stand, a CYCLONE and the PS/2 keyboard. It looks cool (I tried to sent a picture on Mastodon but black stuff on a black desk looked too black on the picture...). It is cool and it works. Of course, only one device can be attached to 3a at once. So I can work (write texts, make spreadsheets, make OPL programs and so) and save it to an internal memory. Then I have to dis-connect the keyboard and connect the floppy drive to copy stuff to a floppy. In theory, I can also connect a parallel printer but it uses the same PSION connector. So I use printer the other devices must be dis-connected. But it's just a theory as I don't have any such printer... The other problem is that the IKEA notebook desk is not stable so I don't leave so valuable things on it (I already lost one PSION 3a by dropping it and I do not repeat this experience). So it can work but I will not probably use it as such. That's all for this Saturday.