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New hand drill

Posted on2019-10-112019-10-11Leave a comment

The drill cleaned up Recently I purchased an old hand drill, a Stanley No 5044 101n. Today I took it apart, brushed the rust off, sanded the wooden parts and oiled and greased it up. Now it’s working wonderfully again. Tried them all outThe drill cleaned upThe box… see story… Read the rest

Creating a nest box

Posted on2019-10-042019-10-05Leave a comment

My wife is really into nature; garden, bees, butterflies, birds. She develops our garden, taking into account creating a good habitat for all natural animals in our region. Bird house / next box Then she asks me to make her a bird house / nest box. Hey, what can a… Read the rest

Shelves for sandpaper

Posted on2019-09-282019-09-28

Today, I built a little ‘cupboard’ with a couple of shelves to hold sandpaper. Cut to sizeGluing them togetherTest fitMore test fittingLinseed oil applied… Read the rest

Extension to the tool board

Posted on2019-09-212019-09-28

As some of you might know, I recently picked up woodworking again. I am in the process of building a French cleat tool board. Today I expanded my tool board still a bit further. A bit of extra space on the left French cleats expanded Also, I added some chisels… Read the rest

Video series about SCEPSIS

Posted on2019-07-182019-07-18

I’m in the process of producing a viedo series about my Simple CPU emulator, SCEPSIS. You can find the expaning playlist here: playlist for SCEPSIS videos… Read the rest

My new rig

Posted on2019-06-262019-06-271 Comment

Noise New Old Today my new rig arrived. See specs below. The primary reason for the new purchase is the sound of the old one that went between 50 and 60 dB; whereas t he new one has components that where selected for silence, and it pays off: Speed New… Read the rest

SCEPSASM – The SCEPSIS Assembler

Posted on2019-06-202019-06-20

SCEPSASM is an assembler that will – based on a language definition (langdef) file – parse a source file and convert it into an object memory file that can be executed with the SCEPSIS emulator. The SCEPSASM main screen The current version works and it’s output OBJect files will be… Read the rest

A sad day for Free XA…

Posted on2019-06-182019-06-181 Comment

Response from IBM Regarding Our Petition By Moshix Jun 17, 2019 — Dear Petitioners We spoke today with the Vice President of Strategy for IBM’s mainframe division. This call was a follow-up of a previous discussion held on the subject of our petition. IBM has duly considered our petition and… Read the rest

SCEPSIS

Posted on2019-05-252019-06-113 Comments

Have a look at my new project, the ‘Simple CPU Emulation Program (Student Instruction System)‘… SCEPSIS control panel… Read the rest

tmux terminal organizer

Posted on2019-05-042019-05-06

tmux is short for Terminal Multiplexer. And that’s what it does. It’s a neat little tool that I use to be able to have multiple sessions open at the same time and to be able to switch between them. As an example you can click on the picture to the… Read the rest