With being down to just me at work I’ve been ridiculously busy the last couple of weeks… And I don’t mean just me in the IT personnel sense, but more in the literal ‘no other employees’ sense – yesterday it was just myself and the HR guy in the office, and he was gone half the day for his routine 3-hour lunch, and today I was the only person there period.
Yesterday truly sucked as I had a recycler coming to pick up about 70 old PCs and 65 old LCD monitors – and they showed up with a 53-foot semi.
There’s absolutely no way to park a 53-foot semi at the building, so they wound up parking on the street. To try and aleviate the congestion this would cause for the next two hours I went to fetch the road cones we keep for blocking off parking spots – and wound up falling down a short flight of concrete steps and messing up my left knee and right ankle.
I then proceeded to spend the next two hours schlepping computers and monitors out of the building, and by the end of the day my knee was roughly cantaloupe-sized.
A handful of Aleve, a hot shower, and early bed seems to have helped and today I’m merely limping. Of course today I was the only person at the office so limping included the 50 yard hike from my office to the front door every fifteen minutes for some reason.
Outside of my work-woes there was one interesting recent announcement:
See, Commodore Inc. recently got bought by a retro-computing YouTuber who goes by “Perifractic”. Really – he’s the new CEO – and last week they released their first bit of new hardware in 30 years.
What this is, is a system quite similar to my MiniMig in that all of the custom logic of the original machine has been recreated in FPGA… So it’s basically a Commodore 64 that supports old 80’s cartridges, tape, and even the 1541 floppy drive – but also happens to have USB (A and C), HDMI, Ethernet, Wifi, and optical S/PDIF…
Basically the perfect modern C64.
While I never had a C64 (I went from a VIC-20 in 1982 to an Atari 800XL in 1985), my best friend and neighbor growing up did – and I probably spent more time on his C64 than I did on my VIC-20.
So there are a lot of fond memories of lying on the floor in Philip’s family room swapping floppies to play things like Bard’s Tale and Adventure Construction Set.
I plan to relive some of those memories when the C64U gets here. 🙂
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