Copying a Mac Disk with a Single Drive

[David Griffith]

On Mon, 5 Feb 2007, Jim Leonard wrote:

> I tried to explain to a younger person why I still have an Apple when
> every disk under the sun has been dumped to image files, and Apple II
> emulators are 99.99999% perfect.  I told him it's because there is a
> certain flavor of experience that can't be emulated when using the real
> thing.  The noise of the disk drive (*), the long wait times, etc.
> contribute to the experience.  An Apple II emulator which silently loads
> programs in one second isn't right.  (And arcade emulators that don't
> even make an attempt at reproducing scanlines also irk me.)
>
> (*) How many of you did this internally when you read that:
> "Brrrrrrrrrrrr-RATDATDATDATDATDATDATDATDAT!" :-)

It's not the same unless the table shakes while the drive does its thing.

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David Griffith
dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu

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