On Fri November 10 2006 11:51, Per Jessen wrote:
> Carlos E. R. wrote:
> > But I remember buying the old pcmagazine and typing rows of
> > hexadecimal as "data" lines for a basic program that would then create
> > a tiny .com program like "ted.com".
>
> Back in highschool we had a 16bit minicomputer with a grand 32K of
> core-memory. Boot-strapping it meant entering instructions directly on
> to the databus using 16 toggle-switches on the frontpanel. Now that's
> real programming :-)
>
>
> /Per Jessen, Zürich
Now your talking about the days when programmers were programmers. I remember
some of my first systems which were PDP5, 7 or 8's (8 bit systems) with 16K
core and 256K head per track disk. we controller complet chemical plants,
steel mills and electric plants.
--
Russ
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