Thursday 10/19/2023
Tidy the apartment, and off to the Shustek center in Milpitas for a day of cataloging documents. Steve and I worked through one entire box of various things. A notable entry was a complete collection of the newsletter of the New Orleans Kaypro User Group, from 1981-83. They put out a 4-page newsletter every month during that time, and somebody had saved them and donated them.
Another item was a lot of notes and careful schematic diagrams, by an MIT e student who in 1973 or so, was trying to reverse-engineer a “blue box,” an analog tone generator then used for getting free long-distance calls.
On the way home I stopped by Jean’s place, mostly to pick up my spare MacBook that I had lent her. She had taken it on a trip to Salt Lake where she used the Mormon’s genealogy study center to try to complete her family trees. I say tried, because she had all her notes on a USB stick and somehow during the trip home, it was wiped. Formatted empty. Disappointing, lost a good part of her work.
On my balcony the white fly infestation has rebounded from my spraying. I sprayed some more but the spray bottle ran out. I will get bigger guns tomorrow.
Codgerville 