15 Apr
2013
15 Apr
'13
5:21 a.m.
For me also its the hardware that I get the most pleasure outoff. Pouring
over the drawings/scope/La for houres to find out exactly what ic is cousing
the ISZ to not skip, or wher the middle 4 bits of the AC have gone to is the
fun bit and the sence of achivement when you first see the os8 dot promt on
a 40 year old 8 is hard to beat. Quite waht i will do when I get everything
fixed i dont know but thats a long way of yet ( MTBF 1 week and rising )!
DaveH
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony Duell" <ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk>
To: <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 14, 2013 9:23 PM
Subject: Re: Hardware vs Simh
Isn't that
the fun of computing. There is a whole spectrum of what folks
enjoy, and wouldn't the world be a boring place if it wasn't so. I am
Well, that's certainly true of _classic_ computing... And it's great!.
This is a very wide hobby, with all sorts of ways to enjoy. The fact that
different people enjoy differnt aspects doens't mean that some are right
and soem are wrong, or that some are 'better' than others. It means they
enjoy different things, nothing more.
_I_ can't see the appeal of running an emulator for some 1980's home
computer and then writing programs in BASIC, when there are much better
languages and debugging systems available for PCs. But the fact that _I_
can't see the appeal is a problem with me, not with those that enjoy it.
I am quite sure that there are pletny of people who can't se the appeal
of staring at the 'scope and logic analyser for horse. Of burnign your
fingers on an overheating part. On spending a few hours in the grrage
egettign shoered in oil and mettla turnings as you make a new part for
the printing terminal. But that's what _I_ enjoy...
-tony
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