July 8th, 2015:

	I know I say this every few months, but I honestly prefer my old 
computers to more contemporary ones.  I like being able to single-task.  I 
like communicating on my own time.  I like being master of my own machine.  
I like knowing exactly WHAT is on my system at any given time.  I like 
being able to run an efficient, useful, floppy-only system.

	Getting that hard drive working with my TRS-80 Model 4P was a fun 
little exercise, although it hasn't yet changed the way I use the system.  
Right now, it's alleviated a lot of disk swapping and RAM disk usage, and 
made data transfers between different computers a bit faster.  However, I 
haven't really TRIED to do anything different.  The truly fun part is the 
increased potential the 4P now has.  What I'll DO with that increased 
potential, I don't know, but as I explore the system and tinker, all will 
become obvious.

	My ultimate goal is to have my Model 4P online without using 
another computer (including my Raspberry Pi) or mobile device as an 
intermediary.  I can already do this by connecting the 4P to my Cisco 
router via console cable, but I'd love to make use of a serial-WIFI 
adapter to eliminate a connection.  I've been told some serial-WIFI 
adapters have a telnet client built into the adapter's firmware, but the 
information comes from my reliably unreliable sources, so...

	It'd be much easier to get Angry Red, my Toshiba 5200 portable, 
online.  Even though Angry Red is a 20MHz 386 with 2 megs of RAM, I have 
lots of options available to me.  My original plan was to install a 16-bit 
ethernet card into the portable's ISA slot, but that plan was scrubbed 
whan I opted to install a SCSI card instead.  My next plan is to make use 
of the Xircom Parallel-to-Ethernet adapter box I bought years ago.  
Failing that, I have a couple of SCSI-to-Ethernet adapters lying around 
that I could use (if I ever find drivers).  Failing THAT, I can install 
one of the high-speed serial cards (16550 UARTS!) sitting in my junk box 
into Angry Red's 8-bit ISA slot, and use a SLIP connection to another 
machine.

Failing THAT, I can use Windows 3.11's TCP/IP stack to dial in to my SDF 
account.