23 Jan
2017
23 Jan
'17
7:04 p.m.
On 01/23/2017 05:45 PM, Jon Elson wrote:
WOW!!!! That is QUITE amazing! And, I can't
possibly imagine why
anyone in their right mind would do this! Seems an emulator on a PC
would be faster, and way more reliable, not to mention taking up MUCH
less space, power and cooling. How reliable can a 60 year old
machine possibly be? Where do you get parts? There have to be a
whole lot of special parts that are deteriorating, like the plastic
parts on the console. Even the PC boards (IBM SMS cards) are pretty
fragile, easily damaged during rework, and some of them dissipate a
lot of power, causing slow thermal degradation.
Are we SURE this isn't a preview of the April 1st edition?
I wondered about this too. Even the USAF eventually replaced the 7080s
with S/370 running emulation. Keeping a 7074 running (if my memories of
keeping a 7094 going are accureate) would be quite some task.
--Chuck