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The issue isn’t security through obscurity, the protocols and physical layer between the signalling system and disc drive are going to be documented. The issues

The issue isn’t security through obscurity, the protocols and physical layer between the signalling system and disc drive are going to be documented. The issues are more making sure that the emulator is an accurate emulation, and can’t somehow feed false data. The “DOS” on the signalling system might be a somewhat eccentric system written in the 70s, and might trigger edge cases in an emulator designed for generic CP/M or MS-DOS systems. It might not be (and probably isn’t), but when the worst case is a train crash, you have to be cautious.

nemo44x 4y ago
Yeah I hear ya, examine it and proceed with caution. I’m just saying it’s probably an extremely simple system and physical, outdated media isn’t a blocker. So many of these old systems are unbelievably simple by todays standards in terms of the hardware we have to allow layer after layer of abstraction. Back in the day the complexity was squeezing it into limited spaces.