23 Jan
2023
23 Jan
'23
7:53 p.m.
Not necessarily criticism, but there's usually a bit of judgement in there
somewhere; "I can't understand why on earth anybody would spend good money
and time buying old obsolete computers and getting them running" kinda
suggests that the speaker thinks you've got a problem and should spend the
money on more practical stuff (and they may well be right ;-)
I've certainly got hard and floppy disk emulators for several of my
systems; I was just saying that there are sick people out there who are
happy when a floppy drive fails and they have the opportunity to learn and
share repairing it.
Jest no accountin' for some folks' tastes...
On Mon, Jan 23, 2023 at 2:28 PM Chris via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
wrote:
@ Mike Stein
Not everything is criticism. I only corrected a rather obtuse notion
about people replacing mechanical drives with solid state ones. Everyone
would love to use their original equipment if it was practical. I for 1
have NO luck with floppy disks. Is it my part of the country? Could be.