It is called feedback - directly given but fair and polite.

Delays, filtering, non-linearities, distortion, etc reduce its effectiveness.

Martin

PS I shall omit, as unnecessary, a discourse on the benefits of feedback

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Hunter via cctalk [mailto:cctalk@classiccmp.org] 
Sent: 12 June 2023 07:08
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk@classiccmp.org>
Cc: Tom Hunter <ccth6...@gmail.com>
Subject: [cctalk] Re: Greaseweazle part 2

Is it really necessary to be always so confrontational? It is unpleasant.

On Sun, 11 June 2023, 10:44 pm Tony Duell via cctalk, <cctalk@classiccmp.org>
wrote:

> > Fundamentally, it seems to me that they're all the same basic 
> > hardware, timing intervals between flux transitions.
> >
> > So other than the soaftware, what's the difference?
>
> I could make a stupid comment and ask 'what's the difference between a 
> PDP8, PDP11, PERQ or HP9830?'. Apart from having finite memory, all 
> are (I believe) equivalent to a Turing machine.
>
> But more seriously when I started asking about writing images to 
> floppy disks, I asked what options were available and what I'd need.
> Apart from the (IMHO) stupid suggestion of a 1990's PC compatible, the 
> only thing that was mentioned to me was the Greaseweazle. Nobody 
> pointed me at web sites giving comparisons between the various methods 
> and devices.
>
> -tony
>

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