Monthly Archives: July 2011

All the remaining floppies from Wednesday, as well as the ones Doug found yesterday, have been transferred to the Mac, and all .dsk files have been printed out to text files. I didn’t have any more disks that couldn’t be … Continue reading →

The plot page is all but finished, there is just a small issue with some parts of a table that contains the date adjustment links. All the heavy lifting is done, now it is just the small details. I spent … Continue reading →

Today was mainly spent transferring weather data – first from floppy disks on the Apple ][ to .dsk files on the mac via ADT, then from the .dsk files to .txt files via Virtual ii. There were fortunately only two … Continue reading →

The main problem we’ve run into so far as we’ve started transferring weather data to the Mac (besides the outside temperature for every field in November ’95 and January ’96 being 195.6 degrees fahrenheit, but there’s not much to do … Continue reading →

That’s right – we are emulating the Apple ][ computer, running the ancient weather program, and “printing” tables of old weather data to text files on the lab iMac. Here’s what we did: Setting up the connection The Apple ][ … Continue reading →

After toiling with the plotting scripts for the past two days, it now works! Technically I still have to update the daily and monthly scripts, but I know exactly what I have to change. It was a combination of old … Continue reading →

I am recording Doug’s account of our latest approach to obtaining the Apple ][ data here, for our own reference and the benefit of others who might want to do something similar. I think he says it better than I … Continue reading →

After reading through all the documentation for Python’s time and datetime libraries, I’m pretty sure the timestamp system I used in the program I was talking about was of my own invention. That may be what we want to do … Continue reading →

After spending the morning working with mySQL and getting a near-replica of the current database structure set up, I got the almanac to work! I started CSS-ifying it, but I have only gotten 1/3 of the way done with that. … Continue reading →

After a lot of reading and re-reading the code, I figured out what the problem with the display was. There was a commenting out being added by php which was never closed, which threw off a bunch of the subsequent … Continue reading →