Re: [Simh] SIMH and physical hardware

On 2/9/16 11:41 PM, Zachary Kline wrote: > This is around 50% humorous, but it’s still a thing I’ve been thinking about > lately. From a newbie’s perspective, all SIMH machines are very similar. The > worst thing about emulation is that the “feel,” of the original hardware > doesn’t seem to be

Re: [Simh] SIMH and physical hardware

On 2/9/16 11:41 PM, Zachary Kline wrote: This is around 50% humorous, but it’s still a thing I’ve been thinking about lately. From a newbie’s perspective, all SIMH machines are very similar. The worst thing about emulation is that the “feel,” of the original hardware doesn’t seem to be

[Simh] Sounds

or as Henk Gooijen says when he enters his machine room, "Hello, fans!". Sent from my iPhone ___ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh

Re: [Simh] error

Hi. On 2016-02-09 23:43, Mark Pizzolato wrote: On Tuesday, February 9, 2016 at 2:16 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote: On 2016-02-09 22:58, Mark Pizzolato wrote: You may recall that older computers didn’t have a way to programmatically power themselves down. Well, this isn't about powering down,

Re: [Simh] Sounds

-Oorspronkelijk bericht- From: Jack Rubin Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2016 6:16 PM To: simh@trailing-edge.com Subject: [Simh] Sounds or as Henk Gooijen says when he enters his machine room, "Hello, fans!". - LOL, yes I still say that :-) BTW, Pontus is correct: you must

Re: [Simh] SIMH and physical hardware (Zachary Kline)

The original article on restoration vs simulation (http://www.hpl.hp.com/hpjournal/dtj/vol8num3/vol8num3art2.pdf) still provides good insights into what's achievable by restoring old systems vs simulating them. Co-author Max Burnet's collection of working DEC gear provides a far better aural,

Re: [Simh] Sounds

> On Feb 10, 2016, at 12:48 PM, Henk Gooijen wrote: > > ... > After looking just a few minutes at the screen, I looked up again ... > the RK07 had moved again some 4 inches! > > I guess that those big drives like the RK07 , RM80 and RM03 really > should be placed on

Re: [Simh] Sounds

Google for walking disks... It's a known phenomena, or at least it used to be... By the way - just to make another silly comment... The RK07 is a small disk (it's basically just an overgrown RL02). Come back when you've played with an RP06 for a while... Then we can talk of walking... Or

Re: [Simh] SIMH and physical hardware (Zachary Kline)

I didn’t realize the LCM was in Seattle. THat’s pretty close to me, I’ll have to try and get over there when I can rope in an interested sighted friend. Thanks for the insights and video links, all. I have to admit searching Youtube hadn’t occurred to me. Best, Zack. > On Feb 10, 2016, at 9:52

Re: [Simh] Sounds

On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 11:26:44PM +0100, Johnny Billquist wrote: > Google for walking disks... It's a known phenomena, or at least it used to > be... > > By the way - just to make another silly comment... The RK07 is a small disk > (it's basically just an overgrown RL02). Come back when you've

Re: [Simh] SIMH and physical hardware

On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 08:32:25AM +0100, Pontus Pihlgren wrote: > > Anyway, I think the best thing you can do is go to see a real machine, > perhaps at the LCM. It aught to give you a sense of the size, noise and > smell of old gear. > The other place I know of is vintage computer festivals.

Re: [Simh] SIMH and physical hardware

On Tuesday, February 9, 2016 at 21:41, Zachary Kline wrote: > The worst thing about emulation is that the "feel," of the original > hardware doesn´t seem to be there. Simh can emulate tons of hardware > from different manufacturers, but none of that will tell me what it was > like to actually use