*ppppbbbbbbttttttt!* Jon> I never worked on an "IMB 1401".  Was that anything like the IBM 1401? Jon> (ducks) Ken Shirriff is the guy behind righto.com, really interesting stuff he writes about. Sometimes I wish I was that smart and motivated. But writing is hard for me... as Maddog showed. *grin* 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 Jon> 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. Jon> Did you see the new game on early release on Steam?  System Build Jon> Simulator?  Where you get to build a new PC in a simulation?  Heh... Jon> Another great resource is this blog, http://righto.com, who works on Jon> old IMB 1401 systems with card punches, etc.  Lots of great info Jon> there. Jon> John Jon> _______________________________________________ Jon> Wlug mailing list Jon> Wlug@mail.wlug.org Jon> http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug Jon> _______________________________________________ Jon> Wlug mailing list Jon> Wlug@mail.wlug.org Jon> http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug