On 1/17/07, Richard <legalize at xmission.com> wrote:
So yeah, I think there's a lot to the experience
that isn't provided
by an emulator.
Agreed.
And we haven't even gotten to the feel of the
keyboards and their
layouts...
Too true - for me, I type fast enough that tactile feedback and layout
_matters_. I have spent many hours on DEC keyboards (VT52, VT100,
LK201 (VT220, DECmate...), etc), and Commodores (PET, VIC-20, C-64),
Amiga, etc., and I fall into a different rhythm with each one.
Emulators don't sound like this either:
<http://www.xmission.com/~legalize/vintage/sounds/teletype_sounds.mp3>
I should make a recording of my ASR-33 doing something "interesting"
like an OS/8 directory or reading papertape. I was thinking that if I
played that mp3 for my 8-year-old nephew, he would have *no* idea what
it was.
-ethan