Happy New Years everyone! It's officially 2020, which means I'll be 
graduating in four more months! It's hard to believe that I've already 
been in college for three and a half years - one of which I just spent in 
Japan (where I have successfully arrived back from)! I'm going to be 
graduating with a bachelor's of science in Creative Writing with a minor 
in English Literature. (Yes, a BS -- turns out taking the two Computer 
Science classes that Millsaps offers plus some others is just enough to 
pass for it). I'm not looking suuuuper forward to having to take basically 
all English and writing classes this final semester, but at the very least 
I'll have it all done and over with.

On to projects for this year -- of which there are many! I am about bound 
and determined this year to get my ADM-5 terminal up and going (although 
it will probably be after I graduate since I'm not hauling it to the 
college this time around). I ordered Geoff's VT100 kit (which is basically 
a hardware terminal on a chip) off of Tindie and will eventually get a 
GBS-8100 to convert the VGA signal from the board to a 15khz signal that 
will work with the terminal's video board (for which I also have the parts 
to repair). I actually ordered the GBS-8100 already, but the seller on 
eBay sent the wrong thing, so I'll just wait until I'm actually ready to 
repair it to order it again, since I don't have much longer at home before 
returning to school. I also got a heckton of diodes for it for whenever I 
do eventually get around to the keyboard build (which is further off -- 
and less important -- than the video signal).

I've also got an Altair 8800! Mike Douglas, who sells the Altair 8800 
Clone computer, put up a video on YouTube a while back about his Altair 
8800c (following MITS' Altair 8800b) which is essentially a brand new 
Altair computer built from reproduced/updated S-100 boards, a better 
backplane and power supply, and Douglas' clone case (with screws for the 
S-100 motherboard). I've poured a heckton of money (most of which came out 
of my leftover loans from the past two semesters) into building this 
thing, so I'm hoping it all works out once I'm done with the build. I 
*did*, unfortunately, solder in two ICs backwards on the front panel 
board - so after some hard debate with myself and a fight with my cheap 
and awful desoldering pump, I went ahead and ordered a desoldering iron 
with a vacuum tip. I'm hoping that putting the ICs in properly gets the 
thing working (and that I didn't fry anything with my mess-up). We'll see 
on Monday!

I also ordered a PiDP-11 kit and will be building it soon. I don't 
remember if it came with a Pi or not, but if not I'll just use my old Pi 
2b. I would hope that if it can run Chromium, it can run Unix System 7 
lol.

Anyway, that's about it for now! I'm going to try and be a bit more active 
on SDF now that I'm back and working on all of these projects (I'd also 
like to build and commercialize a game for some old system by the end of 
the year - which will hopefully be an attainable feat).

Writing out! . v . )/