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Repairing a Tandy CM-2 RGB Monitor
Last week I finally received a Tandy 1000A and CM-2 monitor from an eBay seller. Unfortunately, it wasn’t packed with the best care and both took some damage. I particular, the monitor was showing only a vertical line across the middle. With some suggestions from persons wiser on the Tandy Discord, I popped the cover…
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Repair and Refurb Atari Paddle Controllers
A while back I picked up a set of Atari paddle controllers at a second-hand store. When I got home, I tested them and found they weren’t working. I think there are only about 40 or so games that use paddles, but still I wanted them to add to the collection. The controllers are pretty…
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“Boot” From (V)HD in the trs80gp Emulator?
Recently I discovered a fantastic TRS-80 emulator from George and Peter Phillips. I’ve been playing with it, while trying my hand at BASIC after about, I dunno, 40ish years? Anyway, it’s much easier to write code on an emulator – particularly since you can use a modern editor like Atom to work with longer code…
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Well, it is gumbo after all…
If, for some strange reason, my blog is still in your feed after 4 years of inactivity and you happen to read this I want to explain what’s going on. About 4 years ago I took a new position at VMware in Technical Marketing for the Cloud Management Business Unit. Hooray, right? As such, my…
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vROps and Service Discovery – A New Dashboard for Troubleshooting Service Discovery
While working with the new vRealize Operations Service Discovery Management Pack in the Tech Marketing lab here at VMware, I built a dashboard to help troubleshoot service discovery issues. I am sharing this in case others find it helpful. There are a few things that can lead to service discovery failures: Version of tools older…
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The Self-Healing Data Center Part 5: Configure an Alert to Trigger the vRO Workflow
Now that we have configured the Translation Shim and vRealize Orchestrator the next task before testing is to configure vR Ops to send an alert to the shim. This will be the final post in this series and when you complete this, you will be ready to apply this solution to automate any alerts you…
John Dias