** Sabi ni Paolo noong Wed, 08 Aug 2001 17:34:38 +0800
> http://www.kaniamania.com/html/1190.html
>
> I hope the younger ones here know that the first altairs had eight flip
> switches and one coded a program byte by byte using those.
> So this cartoon is not that far fetched. This was in the months before
> the apple ][.
I can tell you that AQ Kapauan, whom I consider one of the pioneers of the
Ateneo computing community, did program the Altair, using the switches.
Incidentally, there weren't only eight switches -- there were eight *toggle*
switches, to set the bit values. There were at least three other switches -- the
power switch, a "deposit" switch, and a "run" switch. Hmm, might've been an
"address" switch as well, where you set the address (in binary, of course), and
then you press address to set that address as the current one.
Mabuhay.
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