July 2023
They don't make 'em like that any more: The Philips Pronto remote control (Jul 2023)The Pronto offers a salutary lesson in how an excellent product can die, leaving a gaping hole in the market that nobody wants to fill.
Categories: TDMTLTAM
They don't make 'em like that any more: a paean to the Cowon D2 DAB (Jul 2023)The Cowon D2 DAB was a media player ahead of its time. There was nothing like it in 2005, and there still isn't.
Categories: TDMTLTAM
CP/M resources (Jul 2023)A landing page for my various CP/M articles and utilities.
Categories: Z80, retrocomputing
Getting to grips with JMS shared subscriptions (Jul 2023)Shared subscriptions are a 'new' feature in JMS, that seems to be poorly understood, particularly in a clustered environment. In this article, I explain how shared subscriptions are supposed to work, and what the implications are for load sharing and fault tolerance.
Categories: middleware
Adding a floppy disk controller to my RC2014 Z80 system (Jul 2023)No 80s computer is complete without the chucka-chucka-chucka sound of a floppy disk drive doing its thing.
Categories: electronics, Z80, retrocomputing
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