Not necessarily criticism, but there's usually a bit of judgement in there somewhere; "I can't understand why on earth anybody would spend good money and time buying old obsolete computers and getting them running" kinda suggests that the speaker thinks you've got a problem and should spend the money on more practical stuff (and they may well be right ;-)
I've certainly got hard and floppy disk emulators for several of my systems; I was just saying that there are sick people out there who are happy when a floppy drive fails and they have the opportunity to learn and share repairing it. Jest no accountin' for some folks' tastes... On Mon, Jan 23, 2023 at 2:28 PM Chris via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > @ Mike Stein > > Not everything is criticism. I only corrected a rather obtuse notion > about people replacing mechanical drives with solid state ones. Everyone > would love to use their original equipment if it was practical. I for 1 > have NO luck with floppy disks. Is it my part of the country? Could be.
