| From: James Knott via talk <[email protected]>
| On 2020-04-30 08:46 PM, Stewart C. Russell via talk wrote:
| > Even my PDP8
Neat!
| Geez... It's close to 40 years since I last touched a PDP-8. We had a PDP-8i
| at work. Anyone else here remember the RIM loader?
Yeah. I only used PDP-8 computers before floppies had been invented.
You didn't have to remember the RIM loader for the PDP-8/I, it was
silk-screened onto the console.
<https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e0/PDP-8_I_Bedienfeld_%28simuliert%29.png>
You didn't often need to use it since its only purpose was to load the
BIN loader, and that usually persisted (core memory FTW!).
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