This video is not only cool from the perspective of showing what a 1981 $25,000 HP CAD workstation with Motorola 68000 was capable of -- but also for the techni

This video is not only cool from the perspective of showing what a 1981 $25,000 HP CAD workstation with Motorola 68000 was capable of -- but also for the technique of using some breakout electronics and a program on another computer to emulate a HP drive of that era: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCU4xbHFb58&t=1839s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCU4xbHFb58&t=1839s In the future, I think it would be an awesome thing if software existed, similar to the above, but less HP-specific, such that it could emulate via different types of breakout interfaces every known floppy drive and every known hard drive... Perhaps even more broadly, every known electronic peripheral device via a database of some sort -- although, perhaps that would be quite a stretch... Like, one of the the real-world interfaces -- could be a generic ISA 8-bit card-like plug. Plug this into an 8-bit ISA slot of old PC -- and with the proper software running on another machine, you can emulate a Hard Drive, a Floppy Drive, maybe even an early 8-bit sound card or CGA card... So, something like that -- but for all interface types, and for all types of hardware. Why? Well, testing, debugging, fixing, restoration, etc., etc. Also would be great for proxying and testing complex operating systems... Incidentally, the 68000 shown in the video above doesn't say 68000 on it; it's an HP part that has HP's custom part code stamped on it; to decipher these codes the following table could be used: https://www.cpu-world.com/info/HP-parts.html https://www.cpu-world.com/info/HP-parts.html