Hardware Hobbyists vs. Emulator Jockeys

[Tony Duell]

> 
> On Jun 17, 2009, at 4:40 PM, Tony Duell wrote:
> > But I don't lioke changing the classic machine. Not even replacing  
> > PSUs
> > with switchers. The original PSU is part of the design, and I want to
> > keep it that way.
> 
>    While I agree with you here, I have to admit that, if my PDP-11/70  
> had switching power supplies, I'd probably run it a lot more often.   

Whatever have you done to it? AFAIK the 11/70 has switching regulators as 
standard (my 11/45 certainly does). Not the normal design of SMPSU (in 
that there's a big mains-frequency trasnformer on the input), but it's a 
switcher none-the-less.

-tony