[rescue] SCSI Replacements

[Todd Vernon]

It’s kind of a moot subject in my mind.  Everything that this message is passing through is running on a virtualization platform:-). Plus what difference does it make if code is in an FPGA or ROM or whatever.  I just call them emulators because the guy selling them does :-)

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Todd Vernon
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On Jun 29, 2024 at 12:55 PM -0600, Cameron Kelly via rescue <rescue at sunhelp.org>, wrote:
> Sorry I mean SCSI hdd’s not SCSI’s
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> Sent from my iPhone
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> > On Jun 29, 2024, at 2:40 PM, Cameron Kelly <cam.k801 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > this thread has been an informative read. I do think Dave is right on this one now that I think about it. I too thought they were emulators since I routinely see people replace SCSI’s and my mind just made the connection of “no spinning platters = emulator” and didn’t put much thought into it other than that.
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> > Also I lumped them into the same category as those floppy disk emulators, but those definitely ARE emulators since you are emulating the physical media, whereas SCSI is just the interface.
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> > >
> > > On Jun 29, 2024, at 1:48 PM, Jonathan Chapman via rescue <rescue at sunhelp.org> wrote:
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> > > > Many (most?) people automatically call something an "emulator" just
> > > > because it's new but designed to be used with something old.
> > >
> > > That is true, I occasionally see people referring to the XT-IDEs and friends like that...which is clearly not the case!
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Jonathan
> > >
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