Yea, I know the beast, I never got to play with one, but the PDP 8e was the same way, It had a bunch of switches on the front and you would enter your data through it. You also told it what address to load the data into if you were starting at a different address. Here is a pix of a PDP-8e. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/34/DEC_PDP_8e.jpg
The other one I worked on was the PDP-11, those were interesting times. On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 9:27 AM, Michael Barnes <[email protected]> wrote: > On Apr 4, 2017 09:21, "Chuck Hast" <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 9:06 AM, Mark Phillips <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Richard, > > > > PS Just so you don't think I am some millennial giving you advice, I am > > almost your age and have been working in the tech world ever since one > > entered input into a computer with switches and got output from blinking > > lights. :) > > > > DEC PDP 8 ??? > I remember entering the boot code to read PAPER tape and get the machine > going. One you had it in CORE memory you were set to go. > -- > > > IMSAI 8080? Input one byte at a time via toggle switches and decipher rows > of LEDs. > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > -- Chuck Hast -- KP4DJT -- Glass, five thousand years of history and getting better. The only container material that the USDA gives blanket approval on. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
