Hardware Hobbyists vs. Emulator Jockeys

[Johnny Billquist]

Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:

> 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.   
> I'd *never* make it an irreversible modification, though.

Um. An 11/70 have switched power supplies normally. Did you remove them 
and install large transformers? That would become a very heavy machine 
in that case. :-)

	Johnny

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