I remember booting HP-1000s from the front panel switches. You had to enter the address (16 bit) of the first instruction to run when booting. Fortunately there were boot ROMS that took it from there. But I used to have the octal memorized for inc disp, jmp -1; which would increment the number in the display register and then jump back to the same instruction, so if we were having problems we could at least verify that some part of the system was working like it should. Watching a 16 bit counter count up as fast as it could was interesting.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Anthony R. Nemmer Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 4:43 PM To: Combs, Stephen F (GE Consumer & Industrial) Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Ah, another flame war in the making... Ah yes, I miss the days of front panel lights and gleaming rows of toggle switches! One contract I worked on dealed with a rack mount Sperry computer that did in fact have switches on it so it could be booted in an emergency by hand. I did assembly language programming on it. As I remember, it had some great indexing modes. Tony Combs, Stephen F (GE Consumer & Industrial) wrote: >Can you say "Drum Memory"! ;-> Unfortunately my first experience with >computers used Hollerith cards, paper tape and real, live front panels >(pretty lights and switches.... Ooooohhhhhh...) ;-> > > >Stephen F. Combs CISSP >GE Consumer & Industrial Products >Security Architect, Global Security > >T 540-387-8828 >F 540-387-8095 >D *278-8828 >E [EMAIL PROTECTED] >1501 Roanoke Blvd >Salem, VA 24153 > > >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Beau >E. Cox >Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 3:43 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Gomez, Juan >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Re: Ah, another flame war in the making... > >Hi Anthony R. Nemmer - > >At 2005-11-18, 08:22:34 you wrote: > > >>Yes, and before that I used Emacs on a MULTICS system. I even tried >>my >> >> > > > >>hand at TECO, which was an excrutiatingly painful line editor with a >>command syntax that looked like line noise. I also used a couple of >>funky full screen editors that ran on IBM and Univac mainframes back in >> >> > > > >>the day. >> >>Tony >> >>Gomez, Juan wrote: >> >> >> >>>I remember to use an DOS command call edlin, have you ever use it? >>> >>>Then I remember using PW that one fit in a floppy =] >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>Armando Gomez Guajardo >>>Process Engineer >>>Work Ph 956 547 6438 >>>Beeper 956 768 4070 >>> >>>-----Original Message----- >>>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of >>>Anthony R. Nemmer >>>Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 11:20 AM >>>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>Cc: [email protected] >>>Subject: Re: Ah, another flame war in the making... >>> >>>I remember using Wordstar to do Pascal programming. =) This would be >>>in the very early 1980's >>> >>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>>the dreaded editor/IDE controversy! This one's been dormant ever >>>>since >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>>I've been a subscriber; good to see it coming back to life. >>>> >>>>Buwah-ha-ha-haaaa! Let the flayings begin! >>>> >>>>P.S. I use a combination of antiques: edit (the old DOS editor) and >>>>Kedit, with an occasional resorting to Vim. >>>> >>>>Strong the call of the Dark Side is. >>>> >>>> >>>>-------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>>- >>>>-- >>>> >>>> > >Got you all beat -- I used a 026 IBM card punch to write COBOL and >Assembler programs circa. 1966 :) > >Aloha => Beau; >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >2005-11-18 > > >_______________________________________________ >ActivePerl mailing list >[email protected] >To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs > > > > > > -- SKYKING, SKYKING, DO NOT ANSWER _______________________________________________ ActivePerl mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs _______________________________________________ ActivePerl mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
