17 Jun
2009
17 Jun
'09
10:57 a.m.
On Jun 17, 2009, at 10:01 AM, Jim Brain wrote:
Modern disk drives (www.jbrain.com/vicug/gallery/uIEC ), Ethernet
cards (http://www.jbrain.com/vicug/gallery/nic ), stuff like that.
Well...my opinion is that it's great. I am a purist in some ways,
but not in others. I think that vintage systems shouldn't be
modified (at least not heavily so) to accept these types of things,
but if they would make a vintage machine usable (or "more usable"),
then so much the better. Anything that gets a machine powered up and
doing something is a good thing, IMO.
Some things like this, like Chuck Dickman's brilliant RX drive
emulator and the several excellent TU58 emulators that are out there,
make it FAR easier to bring up vintage systems and get them running.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
Just because I'm curious:
How do folks feel about those who are interested in extending the
life of vintage machines by integrating them with newer
technologies? That's my interest, allowing both existing and a
new class of users to enjoy a vintage platform by making it easy
to utilize the vintage platform with contemporary ones.
Are you talking about things like interfaces for modern disk
drives and such?