Am 18.05.2014 09:49, schrieb Casey Ransberger:
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> I've *always* wanted to play with punched cards. Never ran across a machine that read them, though. Then I saw this thread...
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> Okay so in the last week I had an itch to emulate something. I was thinking 6502, and spent a bit of time reading up on the architecture, but I haven't written any code yet, which leads me to...
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> Did anyone ever do the 1401 emulator?
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> --Casey
I have done a (somewhat incomplete) 8080 emulator to run space invaders in Squeak a loooong time ago. It wasn't a pure
interpreter but did some sort of trace compiling to Smalltalk methods so its speed was somewhat usable even on my slow
PowerPC Mac where I ran Squeak at the time. Nowadays it should be no issue to just run a simple emulator at original
processor speeds.
But of course, with punched cards a mainframe/minicomputer emulator might be more appropriate. Micros have rarely been
used in conjunction with punched cards AFAIK.

Cheers,
Hans-Martin