My Kingdom for a PC/AT Keyboard...
Feb. 16th, 2012 10:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ellyssianOkay, not really.
But I do need to borrow one for a while ~ I need to recover some stuff off the ol' UNIX box, which is running a p100 on a skywired 486 motherboard that I think, perhaps, was used as the nav computer on one of the ships when Columbus discovered America...
If anyone has a PC/AT keyboard ~ or a PS/2 with a PC/AT adapter ~ that they could get to me here and let me borrow for a few months... well, that would be great. I think I might have tossed the one I had ~ or it's buried in storage ~ and I'd really like to try to get into the UNIX box and go over it to see if there's any lost poetry to be found.
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Speaking of lost poetry, I recovered ten poems today. I had posted them on LJ, but didn't get them from wherever I wrote them to a hard copy or one of more persistent storage systems. That was the good news.
They were mostly written in May and August of 2007, so they're from a period that I had thought was complete. This is the bad news. I know I'm missing at least ten poems from August 12, 1996 to November 19, 1999, and I suspect there might be some others missing in the early 2000's, but I thought that things were fairly stable from 2004 onward, and that I had everything electronically (in the collection) and in hardcopy. To find that I didn't... worries me.
I just want to get everything gathered and complete and get on with things...
On that latter note, I wrote eight new poems yesterday. That's 586 present and accounted for, but likely a bit over 600 when the strays are gathered.
But I do need to borrow one for a while ~ I need to recover some stuff off the ol' UNIX box, which is running a p100 on a skywired 486 motherboard that I think, perhaps, was used as the nav computer on one of the ships when Columbus discovered America...
If anyone has a PC/AT keyboard ~ or a PS/2 with a PC/AT adapter ~ that they could get to me here and let me borrow for a few months... well, that would be great. I think I might have tossed the one I had ~ or it's buried in storage ~ and I'd really like to try to get into the UNIX box and go over it to see if there's any lost poetry to be found.
~ ~ ~
Speaking of lost poetry, I recovered ten poems today. I had posted them on LJ, but didn't get them from wherever I wrote them to a hard copy or one of more persistent storage systems. That was the good news.
They were mostly written in May and August of 2007, so they're from a period that I had thought was complete. This is the bad news. I know I'm missing at least ten poems from August 12, 1996 to November 19, 1999, and I suspect there might be some others missing in the early 2000's, but I thought that things were fairly stable from 2004 onward, and that I had everything electronically (in the collection) and in hardcopy. To find that I didn't... worries me.
I just want to get everything gathered and complete and get on with things...
On that latter note, I wrote eight new poems yesterday. That's 586 present and accounted for, but likely a bit over 600 when the strays are gathered.