IBM 029 Keypunch has arrived

Tony Duell wrote: I have no problems with museusm using emulators if they don't want to run the classic machine, or they can't repair it, or... but they darn well should tell the vistiors that what they're seeing is not the real thing. I'll agree with you on this one, Tony. I'm kind of a hardware interest / software interest mix. For me, USING a computer means more about the software. Given that, I'm fine with the idea of emulators, and even wrote a CP/M emulator myself -- only to throw it away when I saw the much better effort put into SimH. (Damn you all! -- no, srsly, thanks for that gem!) But there *IS* a certain appeal to knowing that electrons are running around in paths that have been there for decades -- at least for me. I end up doing any CP/M development work I do on simulators, but I like to RUN the programs in situ, on my IMSAI, or Kaypro, or Osborne machines. Somehow, it seems... more authentic. Dunno, is that the right word? Proper, somehow... as it should be. And, to link to the ongoing religious discussion of editors, I'm personally fond of vi and joe on *nix systems, and the WordStar editing commands in most programs in the CP/M and DOS worlds. I'm fastest in that environment. Warren