11 Jun
2023
11 Jun
'23
11:07 p.m.
Is it really necessary to be always so confrontational? It is unpleasant.
On Sun, 11 June 2023, 10:44 pm Tony Duell via cctalk, <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
wrote:
Fundamentally,
it seems to me that they're all the same basic hardware,
timing intervals between flux transitions.
So other than the soaftware, what's the difference?
I could make a stupid comment and ask 'what's the difference between a
PDP8, PDP11, PERQ or HP9830?'. Apart from having finite memory, all
are (I believe) equivalent to a Turing machine.
But more seriously when I started asking about writing images to
floppy disks, I asked what options were available and what I'd need.
Apart from the (IMHO) stupid suggestion of a 1990's PC compatible, the
only thing that was mentioned to me was the Greaseweazle. Nobody
pointed me at web sites giving comparisons between the various methods
and devices.
-tony