Hans Hübner has been at it again, and has developed code to allow a Teensy AVR development board to adapt a Symbolics keyboard to USB. I ordered a Teensy board of my own, and was hoping to develop a s… more →
BrassTacks (wpc)jaoswald wrote 1 month ago: Hans Hübner has been at it again, and has developed code to allow a Teensy AVR development board to … more →
jaoswald wrote 1 year ago: I wanted to post a link referring to recent progress on adapting Symbolics keyboards to modern PCs. … more →
jaoswald wrote 1 year ago: As I alluded to in an earlier post, Symbolics Genera takes a slightly different approach to packages … more →
jaoswald wrote 1 year ago: Having hacked on the COMFY code for a while in Emacs Lisp, I got the itch to move it over to my MacI … more →
jaoswald wrote 1 year ago: Working with ResEdit and DeRez, I believe I have traced out the keyboard protocol used by the MacIvo … more →
jaoswald wrote 1 year ago: The ADB adapter has not just given me some help uncovering the behavior of the Rev. C Symbolics keyb … more →
jaoswald wrote 1 year ago: The ADB adapter has fulfilled its main purpose: providing an example of hardware which can speak to … more →
jaoswald wrote 1 year ago: David K. Schmidt evidently scrounged up another ADB converter box which he just sold to me. Assuming … more →
jaoswald wrote 1 year ago: Step 1 in the Symbolics keyboard to PIC project was not as quick as I had hoped. It was pretty easy … more →
jaoswald wrote 1 year ago: The first step is to connect the Symbolics keyboard to the PIC. I am using the 16F690 which comes wi … more →
jaoswald wrote 1 year ago: I made a little exercise out of compacting the example “switch debounce” code that the P … more →
jaoswald wrote 1 year ago: A few comments about the PICkit 2 learning experience. There’s a slight bit of polish that cou … more →
jaoswald wrote 1 year ago: My latest diversion is a Microchip PICkit2. The idea is to make something that can understand the Sy … more →
jaoswald wrote 1 year ago: I’ve only had a bit of time to play with my MacIvory, but already things are getting interesti … more →
jaoswald wrote 2 years ago: Just sent off the Paypal payment for a MacIvory II system with 2.6 MW of memory. I’m hoping al … more →
jaoswald wrote 2 years ago: I have been kicking around a few ideas in the Lisp OS direction, and wanted to capture this one. The … more →
jaoswald wrote 3 years ago: I wanted to store a link to Alastair Bridgewater’s (a.k.a. nyef on IRC) SBCL-based LispOS note … more →
jaoswald wrote 2 years ago: A while back I had some idle thoughts about making Lisp machines relevant in 2006. I updated it when … more →
jaoswald wrote 2 years ago: My blogging has been much less frequent of late, mostly because of an unfortunate abundance of non-c … more →