Further Emulator Discussion

Warren Wolfe wrote: used A very common sense decision on their part. Big, unreliable, power- hungry (MG set, chilled water) and a pain to move (think about all of that coax running under the floor). Not to mention the peripherals... A lot of people were devastated when the one and only STAR-65 came back from Canada and was sold to a St. Paul area scrapper for so many cents per pound--and that was when the project was still very much alive. But a 6000-series emulator wouldn't do it for me. The constant 80- some decibel level of the tape drive vacuum pumps, the screaming of the line printers, the clackety-clack and jamming of the card reader, the devastation to my social life because of dedicated block time in the middle of the night, surviving out of vending machines by eating cottage cheese and potato chips, Miinnesota in January, management complaining of being behind schedule--it just wouldn't be the same. Running an emulator would be like watching a silent black-and-white film of the experience. I've never wanted to even try it. Besides, how many deadstart tapes of SCOPE 3.1.6 still exist? --Chuck