To all with interest in preservation

Before I came across Hercules, I tended to dismiss emulators in the same terms. However, I find the experience of using Hercules or Simh remarkably close to the experience of using the actual machine in question. Many users of certain classic computers never saw or heard the actual machine they used and only interacted with it through a terminal (or even a terminal emulator). There are also other factors which prevent both emulators and real preserved hardware from recreating the original experience. Factors such as not having a real world workload to process and not having a realistic number of users working the machine hard (as opposed to a few museum visitors at a time trying to figure out valid commands). (I don't know why I am adding to this thread which looks destined to go on and on and achieve little except to demonstrate that different people have different ideas on how things should be preserved and that most are not going to change their minds.) Regards, Peter Coghlan.