HP and me. (And a sharp PC-1300S

[Geoff Quickfall]

Well, been awhile since I have posted. That does not mean I was not following but the last 4 years have been busy for all of us!

I made it to my first HHC in many years and enjoyed it very much. So many innovations! So many enthusiastic members. Quite a group here and time to catch up.

In the last 6 years I upgraded to the 787, Captains position, started a PhD, ran into the COVID era as we all did. That affected my ability to access my research site for the PhD and upped my time away from home (flying) to 20 days a month.

Covid had a toll on my health and enthusiasm as it did for a vast majority of us. My run in with Covid was strictly work related. Being confined to hotel room for up to 5 days at a time in quarantine as an airline pilot was the worse. No allowance to leave a hotel room for 5 days, no access to outdoors or even being allowed to leave the room. Your key was good for one entrance. If you left your room you were arrested (Australia, Hong Kong). Quarantine arguments with police at my house while following the rules. Not allowed in the university for 2 weeks after arriving from flying which meant not being allowed to attend university, my lab or research area during the entire Covid restrictions (until I educated the Dean of Sciences about our restrictions on travel).

Police showing up at my door, confronting my wife because I went flying two days after arriving from a flight instead of quarantining for 2 weeks. Had to educate them also.

But enough of all that. HHC last year was wonderful and I have picked up where I left off. Looking forward to the next HHC and now:

- Retired from flying (45 years)
- Finalized the PhD program.
- Redid the man cave and have outfitted with the scopes, soldering iron and other various electronic tools.


And now to the point, the book is on the table!. It will be two volumes, LED and LCD!

And to get into the program a Sharp PC-1300S arrived in pretty bad shape. Went to work on it, produced a video on youtube and if you are in need of an english version of the manual, I just completed a full translation of the only exisitng Japanese manual that we know of.

If you want a copy for free:

https://jameltayeb.com/2024/04/13/sharp-...ser-guide/

The youtube video is:

https://youtu.be/RLV_GGUxBQk?si=VZoZ2zPsX7QM0PMA

All this got me into the editing of the almost completed book and finishing it. Hopefully I will have an announcement this year at HHC.

So hello all, best wishes and if you are interested, there will be more repair postings and etc.

Geoff