damont

Last night at the office I discovered that a particular baseline for some code I needed (which is maintained by someone other than my employer) is borken. In several places. And of course I found this out the hard way, including fixing several of the borken things, which is why I didn't get home until after midnight. And it *still* wouldn't compile after all that.

Today, in addition to Adventures In Code Compiling, we are Frankensteining something together at the office, for which we needed a terminal. Or something like it. I was asked if I had any spare parts I could lend to the effort. Thus, today I brought in from my house:

- One ADDS Viewpoint terminal, complete with the College of William and Mary inventory sticker I placed on it 20-odd years ago, after I wrote the program to print said inventory stickers. (I bought the terminal for a dollar at a surplus auction many years later.)
- One Hayes-compatible modem just to see if the terminal would connect to it, as a test.
- A ratsnest of old serial cables.
- One RS232 black box about 20 years old, which can serve as a gender bender and signal splitter, with options for straight-through or null-modem signal passing.

The terminal appears to be malfunctioning. Sigh. Well, I do have several others I can try. In the meantime, we *have* managed to string the serial cables and black box together in a sequence that allows us to use a laptop (with appropriate software) as a serial terminal.