13 Oct
2016
13 Oct
'16
5 p.m.
On 10/13/2016 12:46 PM, tony duell wrote:
Perhaps I am one of the lucky ones (for once). I
started being interested
in classic computers long before most people...
...
I do feel the hobby has changed. I haven't, which is why I don't post
much here any more. When I started it was all people trying to restore
and run the genuine old hardware. Now it seems there are a lot of
emulators running on hardware I don't understand. And add-ons to
perfectly understandable and hackable machines using microcontrollers
and FPGAs that you can't probe with a logic analyser. That sort of thing
is what I got into classic computing to avoid, so I am not going to
put such devices into my PDPs, etc.
-tony
Hear, hear!
- J.