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PC XT was my first computer, and when I think of owning one, I immediately go to how loud and slow the 5 1/4 floppies were. I'm sure I'd just roll my eyes as I
by codezero 6y ago
PC XT was my first computer, and when I think of owning one, I immediately go to how loud and slow the 5 1/4 floppies were.
I'm sure I'd just roll my eyes as I hear the disk lock in place and start burping mechanically.
This is one of the huge benefits of the FPGA setup, you can make a first pass on real hardware if you want, but once the data is read in, you can keep it side loaded in an SD card and never deal with the slow peripheral again. Taking a modern IO device back in time is really kind of awesome.