Update on HHC Basics

[Roger Merchberger]

Well, I have good news and I have good news... (and just a little bad news)...

I have now erased a bajangle of eproms, I have quite a few Basics burned 
and lots of spare blank carts, so they'll hit the mail soon. I have 
tomorrow off, so I'll prolly pack/address/ship then. If not, definitely 
over the weekend. Tuesday nite was going to be my "Pack'em up nite" but the 
wifeypoo got a line on a good job, so it was transformed into "Rewrite the 
Resume nite."[1] Wednesdays are a PITA for me (to work at 7:30am, get out 
at 8:30 pm or later) so I rarely feel like doing anything after work. Of 
course, my LCD monitor "went blank" Tuesday nite, so I had to figure out 
the cause of that last nite... I was a grumpy dude by 11:00 pm. ;-) Turns 
out the LCD monitor died... :-( I grabbed my wife's monitor and am using 
that temporarily until I can get a new one in.

I did test a basic cart in my HHC, and it seems to work fine, *except* I 
think my RAM's a bit wonky, as once I create a program, then exit BASIC, it 
thinks I have 2 bytes of free memory left. Weird. It might also be a 
limitation as to *which slot* the chip goes into - I didn't diddle with 
that. Or... I don't believe that the internal batteries are functioning, so 
it might be a power problem causing the wonkeyness... Anyway, the Basic 
itself comes up and it takes immediate commands just fine, and I've entered 
in 2-3 line programs that run fine until you exit basic, then it thinks 
there's no free memory left. Like I said, weird.

Anyway, I'll send out individual emails tomorrow with the status of each 
order, but I wanted to let everyone know I didn't forget 'em!

;-)

Laterz,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger

[1] After a 10-year hiatus from the workforce, it was quite a job!

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Roger "Merch" Merchberger   | Anarchy doesn't scale well. -- Me
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