worse than that--dropping the card stack you spent all morning punching in.....



"Beau E. Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

11/18/2005 20:16

       
        To:        "$Bill Luebkert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[email protected]>
        cc:        
        Subject:        Re: Re: Ah, another flame war in the making...



Hi $Bill Luebkert -
 
At 2005-11-18, 14:58:08 you wrote:
>Roger A. Shepherd wrote:
>
>>
>> Try this -- Litton L-3050 with a 16 bit boot register that you set manually
>> with 16 buttons each the size of your thumbprint. The Army bought the
>> hardware 15 years before the development effort got units into the field in
>> 1982.
>>
>> The good old days?
>
>Hardly - clearing core by toggling in the instructions on the front
>panel of an IBM/360 in 1968.
>

- or entering the IPL code ( 32 instructions ) on the front panel of an IBM 3044
at the MIT lab for Nuclear Sicence data center in 1964...and making a boo-boo...

OLD PROGRAMMERS UNITE!!! WE'RE NOT DONE KICKING BUTT YET!!! :) :)
                                                 
Aloha => Beau;
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2005-11-18


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