Henry Nee came over to the hangar today and installed Ubuntu 10 on my EeePC
net book. What a transformation. It now has access to 1000's of free
programs easily downloaded and installed with a few clicks of
the mouse button. Thanks Henry.

There is a terminal program that runs on Ubuntu 10.
This is a first step getting the EC to talk to an Android tablet.
Both the EeePC and Android tablets run Linux as does the Mac for that
matter. Late Macs allow one to install Ubuntu and perhaps several
other Linux distros.

Henry  is also working on a hardware tap that will monitor the serial traffic
between Ed Anderson tuning device and Tracy's EC. It should also work
with Tracy's EM.

Eventually we hope for a Megasquirt type graphical user interface on a tablet
for Tracy's EC to make it easier to tune. In theory one could record many
mixture maps so they can be shared with others.

BTW Henry and I have a lot in common. We both started with the 6502
back in the early 1970's.

Paul Lamar