Cameron Dorey wrote:
REAL (old) men use the toggle switches on the front of the box!
A fellow operator and myself used to clear core on IBM 360's - simultaneously reaching and flipping toggles and pushing buttons (memorized and choreographed to perfection - arms crossing each other back and forth). We had every person that walked in and saw us do it totally amazed, but once you learned the moves, it was all a breeze. Fun to do and a great way to show off to the non-operators that transgressed into our realm. :)
You got me beat, I was just a student then, and fed input to the campus 360 on punch cards (ka-chunk, ka-chunk, ka-chunk, ka-chunk, ka-chunk). I was actually only thinking of the PDP-8a (was it 1777 first to boot up? Can't remember, don't care.).
Cameron
-- Cameron Dorey Editor, Analytical Sciences Digital Library http://www.asdlib.org Associate Professor of Chemistry University of Central Arkansas Phone: 501-450-5938 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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