<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Sorry Khalid, I feel the need to one-up you --</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Back in the day(1980-ish), while working at Orion Electronics on Lancaster St., I spend at least an hour putzing around with an external floppy drive on an Apple ][ clone, changing out ribbon cable,replacing the floppy interface card inside the PC, trying different boot floppies, removing the drive from it's chassis and re-seating an open-collector TTL chip(if memory serves) famous for "creep", nothing, no boot. <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Sometime in the mid-afternoon on that amazing summer's day, squinting through the glare of the sun through massive glass panes defining the computer showroom, I realized I had forgotten to close the floppy drive door...</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Double duh!<br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>Ron S.</div><div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">All the best for 2022!</div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jan 3, 2022 at 11:23 AM Khalid Baheyeldin <<a href="mailto:kb@2bits.com">kb@2bits.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>I hear what you are saying. <br></div><div>Though it is not practical in my case, because certain apps expect certain <br></div><div>device names, and changing them will be a pain. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Back to the issue at hand: turns out that the problem is between the keyboard and</div><div>the chair. I left one app opening USB0 in one of screen's windows, and that was <br></div><div>tying up that device, and when I insert it again, it is USB1. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Duh!<br></div></div>
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