Dave’s MFM Emulators work well, I remember when I exhibited one at VCF, while a bit confusing to use, no pretty GUI or anything like that, it does what it needs to do. I had tested it and duplicated an existing hard drive, and created several “blank” hard drives over my time with it. Unfortunately this year, I didn’t get anything vintage related, but I did get a WiFi controllable power strip that also monitors energy usage. So when I hook up my vintage systems, I know how much electricity I actually used. :-) On Mon, Dec 25, 2017 at 11:11 PM Mike Loewen via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
On Dec 25, 2017, at 9:25 PM, Mike Loewen via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic at lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
On Mon, 25 Dec 2017, Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
I hit 'send' too soon. Sorry.
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It's always fun to hear what tech toys (vintage computing or not) everyone got for the holidays, whatever you celebrate.
For me it was just buying a box of NOS floppies from Glitch back at Festivus :) and a pair of running shoes (not technical, but expensive!)
I just received a HP 82901M dual-floppy drive to go with my HP 87XM:
http://www.hpmuseum.net/display_item.php?hw=287
Haven't had a chance to try it, yet.
Oh yeah, I also just received one of David Gesswein's MFM hard drive emulators. Looking forward to trying it out on my old Tandy 6000HD, and attempting to image the hard drive in my most recent 6000HD.
Mike Loewen mloewen@cpumagic.scol.pa.us Old Technology http://q7.neurotica.com/Oldtech/
-- Normal Person: Hey, it seems that you know a lot. Geek: To be honest, it's due to all the surfing I do. Normal Person: So you go surfing? Normal Person: But I don't think that has anything to do with knowing a lot... Geek: I think that's wrong on a fundamental level. Normal Person: Huh? Huh? What?