Re: [M100] Ron Wiesen
A little more about Ron Weisen, from QRZ: https://tinyurl.com/y4svu23o On Tuesday, December 21, 2021, 8:20:04 AM EST, Brian Brindle wrote: Hi everyone, I learned today from an amateur radio contact that WD8PNL, Ronald R. Wiesen passed away July 23rd, 2021. He was 71. Ron was noticeably absent from the list recently, especially with the current topics being right up his alley. He brought us many cool programs related to Amateur Radio as well as utilities for the M100. He was a US Marine with combat experience and had dozens of entertaining, crazy stories to go along with all of that. He ran Little Orphan Annie crypto challenges, would spin yarns about the simplest of things and was just pain fun. Ron was an awesome guy, he was already missed but knowing he is gone forever makes me immeasurably sad. 73 my friend, WD8PNL, Keeper of the Primordial Bit (mother of all bits), -= Ron Wiesen =- (SK) As of yet, we have received no comment from Bubba. Brian
Re: [M100] Ron Wiesen
Genuinely grieved to hear about Ron's passing. He was a fount of reliable, thoughtful information, always brought something to the conversation, and was just a fine fellow. I noted on Nov. 10th that he did not post his annual 'Happy Birthday' observation, and wondered a bit about it. Very sorry to learn of it. John On Tuesday, December 21, 2021, 4:16:30 PM EST, Russell Flowers wrote: Very sad, I'm sorry to hear it. He was very active on this list. On Tue, Dec 21, 2021 at 2:35 PM John R. Hogerhuis wrote: Sad news! Ron was a core member of this community for a long time and a big contributor of software and support. He stuck around for some time after Rick's passing, but I think he really missed Rick and it just wasn't the same for him after that loss. So I think many of us had already been missing Ron. Rest in peace Ron. And as he often signed off, -= Model T's Forever =-
Re: [M100] reuse Palm pilot as a serial LCD display for M100
Heh. Maybe...if I can find them. Moreover, I kind of suspect that they were simply coded directly in the device, which would mean that they are gone. I used the Palm and ADIOS board for monitoring some stuff. My recollection is that there were only a few lines of Basic involved...opening a port, sending and receiving ASCII. The best thing to do would be simply to download Hotpaw, and have at it. I do not recall it being a tedious or tricky thing. It struck me as very useful. Oh, and I have NOT forgotten the brief exchanges with you and Mike re ADIOS, just haven't had a chance to prowl around in my 'file system' (AKA basement) and find the stuff. John On Thursday, June 24, 2021, 7:13:16 AM EDT, Stephen Adolph wrote: hi John, very interesting. I forgot about Hotpaw.Can you share your programs for using the serial port?thanks!Steve On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 12:34 AM JOHN JR & VIRGINIA WHITTON wrote: A good while back, I developed several trivial applications for my Pal, using Hotpaw Basic. In each case, those involved RS-232 connections. It's pretty straight-up Basic, as I recall. It's been years, but looks like it's available for download here: Ron Nicholson's Ancient Palm OS Computing Information Page | | | | | | | | | | | Ron Nicholson's Ancient Palm OS Computing Information Page | | | On Wednesday, June 23, 2021, 6:36:40 PM EDT, Dan Higdon wrote: Wow, that's pretty cool. I have an old Palm III that I keep wanting to find stuff to do with. I have the cradle (an RS232 cradle, thankfully) but no software. I put batteries into it and it does work. >From the sounds of things, it looks like it won't be a straight-up "throw >ASCII at it" terminal, but it will be fun to explore the options I think. On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 7:24 AM Stephen Adolph wrote: http://palmorb.sourceforge.net/download.html stumbled across this interesting piece of Palm Pilot software it turns the PP into an RS232 driven LCD display. This seems like it could be quite useful for the M100 - debug interface, auxiliary input/output etc.
Re: [M100] reuse Palm pilot as a serial LCD display for M100
A good while back, I developed several trivial applications for my Pal, using Hotpaw Basic. In each case, those involved RS-232 connections. It's pretty straight-up Basic, as I recall. It's been years, but looks like it's available for download here: Ron Nicholson's Ancient Palm OS Computing Information Page | | | | | | | | | | | Ron Nicholson's Ancient Palm OS Computing Information Page | | | On Wednesday, June 23, 2021, 6:36:40 PM EDT, Dan Higdon wrote: Wow, that's pretty cool. I have an old Palm III that I keep wanting to find stuff to do with. I have the cradle (an RS232 cradle, thankfully) but no software. I put batteries into it and it does work. >From the sounds of things, it looks like it won't be a straight-up "throw >ASCII at it" terminal, but it will be fun to explore the options I think. On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 7:24 AM Stephen Adolph wrote: http://palmorb.sourceforge.net/download.html stumbled across this interesting piece of Palm Pilot software it turns the PP into an RS232 driven LCD display. This seems like it could be quite useful for the M100 - debug interface, auxiliary input/output etc.
Re: [M100] AT Command set
The answer is a rather qualified 'Yes'. I'll have to root around in the stacks, and see what I can find. Will do so in the next day or two. Nice to hear from both of you. John On Thursday, March 4, 2021, 9:32:12 PM EST, Mike Stein wrote: I've been meaning to ask the same question; any chance you still have the files for the boards or a source, and could share them? Talk to ya off-list; it's been too long! mike On Thu, Mar 4, 2021 at 7:51 PM JOHN JR & VIRGINIA WHITTON wrote: Alas, no. I only had 10 boards etched, and bought parts for 10. All sold. You would be surprised by how many times I have used it for small projects. The weirdest, perhaps, was to drive one of these, a Western Electric railroad station selector, a very interesting device: http://railroad-signaling.com/relays/tn_60ap_jpg.jpg http://www.decadecounter.com/vta/pic/we60ap3.jpg On Thursday, March 4, 2021, 7:32:15 PM EST, Stephen Adolph wrote: Hey John,I'm going to be playing with my ADIOS again. Do you have any more f those cool devices around? Can you make more? Hope all is well! CheersSteve On Saturday, February 20, 2021, JOHN JR & VIRGINIA WHITTON wrote: Jeff Gonzales To:m100@bitchin100.comSat, Feb 20 at 7:37 PMWow, crazy. I guess AT commands have come a long way from ATDT9,,,1800555 hahaha. So, what protocol is the device expecting the other end to communicate with? I haven't commented here in a couple of years, but read the posts. In this instance, I thought I'd mention that I was present when the 'AT' command set was initially created. ~1980, by my recollection. Regards to all, John
Re: [M100] AT Command set
Alas, no. I only had 10 boards etched, and bought parts for 10. All sold. You would be surprised by how many times I have used it for small projects. The weirdest, perhaps, was to drive one of these, a Western Electric railroad station selector, a very interesting device: http://railroad-signaling.com/relays/tn_60ap_jpg.jpg http://www.decadecounter.com/vta/pic/we60ap3.jpg On Thursday, March 4, 2021, 7:32:15 PM EST, Stephen Adolph wrote: Hey John,I'm going to be playing with my ADIOS again. Do you have any more f those cool devices around? Can you make more? Hope all is well! CheersSteve On Saturday, February 20, 2021, JOHN JR & VIRGINIA WHITTON wrote: Jeff Gonzales To:m100@bitchin100.comSat, Feb 20 at 7:37 PMWow, crazy. I guess AT commands have come a long way from ATDT9,,,1800555 hahaha. So, what protocol is the device expecting the other end to communicate with? I haven't commented here in a couple of years, but read the posts. In this instance, I thought I'd mention that I was present when the 'AT' command set was initially created. ~1980, by my recollection. Regards to all, John
Re: [M100] AT Command set
Yes. On Sunday, February 21, 2021, 3:36:39 PM EST, John R. Hogerhuis wrote: "In this instance, I thought I'd mention that I was present when the 'AT' command set was initially created. " Cool, John! Wikipedia agrees with you on the approximate year... 1981. At Hayes? -- John.
Re: [M100] AT Command set
Jeff Gonzales To:m100@bitchin100.comSat, Feb 20 at 7:37 PMWow, crazy. I guess AT commands have come a long way from ATDT9,,,1800555 hahaha. So, what protocol is the device expecting the other end to communicate with? I haven't commented here in a couple of years, but read the posts. In this instance, I thought I'd mention that I was present when the 'AT' command set was initially created. ~1980, by my recollection. Regards to all, John
[M100] Still here, and reading M100 list
Pulled out my M102 with the embedded A/D (a project from some while back) to log temperature of our water heater. It occurred to me that I haven't added much to the list in the last (?) two years, so I thought I'd just drop in and say hello. I still faithfully read all posts. Regards to all...even those in Canada. John
Re: [M100] BASIC trick
>Yeah I don't have a problem with that kind of stuff as long as its portable >and you keep the code short. - And it is well commented/documented. John W. On Thursday, December 13, 2018, 3:06:02 PM EST, John R. Hogerhuis wrote: On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 10:01 AM Scott Lawrence wrote: On Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 1:21 PM John R. Hogerhuis wrote: In other languages you can't call into the middle of a function. There is one entry point, possibly multiple exit points. There's no chance unbalanced CALL and RETURN. once you return you're jump to the stacked address and you're no longer in the subroutine. For what it's worth, you certainly can do this in C. ...And it woks fine if the place you jump to is in a function with the same size/number of parameters passed in (pushed onto the stack). Although optimizations that the compiler does might screw with that. ;) Fair enough. I've seen setjmp/longjmp. It's really weird. I ran across it in some code creating its own scheduler for a network simulator unit test harness. Basically it needed to create multiple instances of a protocol stack to test a IoT mesh network. Is setjmp/longjmp what you're talking about? Because I don't think you can goto or call into the middle of a function otherwise. By no means is it recommended or even slightly good practice though. ;D A somewhat similar weird goto-thing is Duff's Device, where you jump into the middle of a loop... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duff%27s_device Yeah I don't have a problem with that kind of stuff as long as its portable and you keep the code short. -- John.
