On 9 Aug 01 at 0:10, Daniel O. Escasa wrote:
>
> 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.
Yep...I've programmed the PDP-11 and the HP3000 using toggle switchies...
There are 16 address bit switches, and 8 bit data switches.
1 load switch and 1 reset switch and 1 run switch.
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