On 01/23/2017 05:45 PM, Jon Elson wrote: > WOW!!!! That is QUITE amazing! And, I can't possibly imagine why > anyone in their right mind would do this! Seems an emulator on a PC > would be faster, and way more reliable, not to mention taking up MUCH > less space, power and cooling. How reliable can a 60 year old > machine possibly be? Where do you get parts? There have to be a > whole lot of special parts that are deteriorating, like the plastic > parts on the console. Even the PC boards (IBM SMS cards) are pretty > fragile, easily damaged during rework, and some of them dissipate a > lot of power, causing slow thermal degradation. > > Are we SURE this isn't a preview of the April 1st edition?
I wondered about this too. Even the USAF eventually replaced the 7080s with S/370 running emulation. Keeping a 7074 running (if my memories of keeping a 7094 going are accureate) would be quite some task. --Chuck
