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Month: January 2023

  • Clear message 155 – System Recovery Is Necessary

    There are two types of applications, those that can fail with no real adverse affects, and those that can’t. If you are printing out a simple report odds are that as long as it doesn’t update anything if it fails, you can just fix the problem and run the print again. However, if you are…

  • Started the site rebuild

    On Saturday I started the re-build process for this website. I had a couple of hairy moments where I thought I’d managed to brick not only this site, but my other site; HobbyElectronics.net, which is hosted by the same people. I wanted to copy my HobbyElectronics site structure as it contains lots of things it’s…

  • Nixdorf Product Range

    A small catalogue that details the Nixdorf product range – no date unfortunately.

  • NIROS 5.1/05

    The NIROS manuals contain details of all operating system updates since the previous manual; including updates to BASIC, and details of new or updated hardware. Once something has been described it will not usually be covered again in subsequent manuals unless a relevant change has been made, so to get a complete picture of the…