John, I never worked on an "IMB 1401". Was that anything like the IBM 1401? (ducks) Jon On Sat, Mar 31, 2018, 19:16 John Stoffel <john@stoffel.org> wrote:

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"Jon" == Jon \"maddog\" Hall <jon.maddog.hall@gmail.com> writes:

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The trouble with the old machines is the eventual death of irreplacable hardware -- Pentium-MMX CPU Fans, PATA disks and the like.

Jon> Emulators and virtual machines.....allow old copies of the OS to live forever.

Jon> I am, however, waiting for the "virtual car", for the time that Jon> people can no longer get the little embedded systems that allow Jon> modern-day cars to run. The era of "fixing up an old car" which Jon> both trained you in auto mechanics and "gave you wheels" is Jon> coming to a close.

Did you see the new game on early release on Steam? System Build Simulator? Where you get to build a new PC in a simulation? Heh...

Another great resource is this blog, http://righto.com, who works on old IMB 1401 systems with card punches, etc. Lots of great info there.

John

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