Simplicity Betrayed or Emulation is Hard

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Great write up. I ponder how we can use this to create a class and/or community event?

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Creating an emulator, accurate or otherwise, is too difficult or esoteric for most. Especially for a one or two hour class format.

We probably do not have enough room for this, but a display with an actual TRS-80 alongside a good and a not so good emulator so that the differences are obviously visible.

Peripheral topics which can make for classes include general computer architecture, how to read a circuit schematic and code optimization techniques.