On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Lowell Bruce McCulley wrote: > if you weren't you'd know that writing assembly by hand involved setting > the console bit switches for each instruction and then hitting the > appropriate switch to deposit the binary code (usually 12 or 16 bits, in > my experience) into memory.
My boss at my last job told how he used to supervise a computer which was "reprogrammed" by changing wires on a plug board. It was doing crypto for the Air Force at the time; I've often wondered what the key strength was. You think maybe 16-bits was strong encryption when UNIVAC was state-of-the-art? ;-) -- Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | The opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do not | | necessarily represent the views or policy of any other person, entity or | | organization. All information is provided without warranty of any kind. | ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
