April 24th, 2020:

	I updated my TRS-80 journal "The 4p Diaries" today, the first 
update in almost five years!  I won't rehash what I wrote, but I'm happy 
to have Sigrid (my Model 4p) fully functional again.

I had time to kill whilst waiting for a vendor to answer, so to pass the 
time productively, I opted to work on Sigrid.  I had other options, but 
I chose Sigrid simply because the 4p was most accessable and most easily 
hooked up.  The fix took a half-hour, but now the work begins.  More on 
that in the next 4p Diaries update, look for the restored link on my 
Gopherhole's main page [1].

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I started cleaning my lab out a few days ago - taking things to the 
e-cycler and recycling some of the papers and books of little value.  
Found some Xenix and SCO Unix stuff, will be offering that to The Unix 
Historical Society once I have a better idea of what all I have.

The lab has been crowded since we bought the house in 2015, and after 
the Teetering Bookcase of Death fell on me couple of days ago, I decided 
it was time to get rid of the stuff I've never *thought* of, let alone 
used, in the last twenty years.  Stuff like Novell Netware 4.02, 
Informix-4gl for PC-DOS, Oracle 7 for MS-DOS and Windows 3.11, and so 
on.  Stuff I'll never use and nobody else wanted.  Stuff that's taking 
up an awful lot of already finite space.

My OS/2 stuff is also being thrown on the pile - I'm probably going to 
offer it for sale at some point, as some folks are still nostalgic for 
the OS. 

Once my work-at-home orders are rescinded and I can return to my 
workplace, I can reclaim my lab and start experimenting again...


[1] gopher://gopher.club:70/1/users/sparcipx/