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the last gasp of ISA
Sunday, December 28 2025
I drank a french press of coffee this morning and then took Charlotte for a fairly short loop through the forest. Since the snow was a foot deep and there were no trails to follow, getting through it was a bit of a slog. We trudged south on the Farm Road, cut over for a short section of the Chamomile Headwaters Trail, and then cut over to the Stick Trail at the first northeastward gulch.
Meanwhile, Gretchen had begun her drive northward from the Watergate at 10:00am, meaning she was home well before dark. While she was driving, I did a little cleanup around the house and then mostly procrastinated with vintage computer hardware, which is more interesting to me now that I can direct detailed questions about it to ChatGPT. I've been interested, for example, in what happens when one attaches an ancient IBM PC multifunction ISA card, the kind used with the original IBM PC, to a much more modern (but still nearly 30 year old) PC based on an AMD K6, one of the last PCs with a working ISA socket. I knew that old CGA video adapters work on such computers, but ChatGPT was pretty certain that the 256 kilobytes of RAM on an ISA card would be ignored and probably impossible to use.
The thing I've been procrastinating is returning to my much more relevant ESP8266 projects, since I know it will be a little painful to get back up to speed with where I left things, that is, using an Arduino slave to parse data arriving at its serial port.
After Gretchen came home and the dogs celebrated, it eventually came time for me to do a chore. [REDACTED]
The slope above the Stick Trail a little south of the Chamomile Wall. Click to enlarge.
The snow-covered Chamomile Wall. Click to enlarge.
Charlotte in the snow. Click to enlarge.
The Stick Trail through the Chamomile Wall. Click to enlarge.
The wall near the bottom of the Woodshed Path. Click to enlarge.
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