On Friday 07 November 2003 10:00, Stephen McConnell wrote:
> >I say IMSAI 8080!!!!  Will your framework be useful for bootstrapping that
> >machine?

The IMSAI was a personal computer! But you had to bootstrap by loading the 
machinecode into each memory adress by flipping 24 binary switches.

> Personal favourite is the PDP 11 - you had the lights - the little
> flashing signals to tell you what was happening.  I could see the
> differnece between build versus runtime just by looking at the sequences!

Except for the "grand tour", I never saw a bigger computer than a personal 
one, and those didn't have any lights ;o(

Niclas

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