When I was in college about, gulp, 50 years ago. I had access to a few DEC minicomputers. One of my classmates took a summer job at a company which had a PDP-8. They were loading their entire program using the front panel switches. He introduced them to the idea of using a short program to load their program from a paper tape. That earned his pay for the summer!
> > On Mar 2, 2020 at 10:46 AM, <Gregg Tracton via TriEmbed > (mailto:[email protected])> wrote: > > > > > > > Everyone will want one of these! > > > > I used one of these computers in college. > > > > For those under the age of 50: to start up this gem, first introduced in the > 1970's, you turn on the power and manually type in the 16 (or so) > instructions that tell the machine to load the OS (operating system), using > the toggle switches on the front. Yes, we were entering binary manually: it > had no keyboard (or mouse) -- this part, plus a disk, is the whole machine. > [You could attach a terminal.] > > > > It took a few minutes to get that sequence right. Experienced users could do > it in 20 seconds. > > > > > > On Mon, Mar 2, 2020 at 10:24 AM Mauricio Tavares via TriEmbed > <[email protected] (mailto:[email protected])> wrote: > > > https://obsolescence.wixsite.com/obsolescence/pidp-11-get-one > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Triangle, NC Embedded Computing mailing list > > > > To post message: [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) > > List info: http://mail.triembed.org/mailman/listinfo/triembed_triembed.org > > TriEmbed web site: http://TriEmbed.org > > To unsubscribe, click link and send a blank message: > > mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe > > > > > > -- > > > > > Gregg Tracton: tired, retired & inappropriately unattired (PJ's) > > > > _______________________________________________ Triangle, NC Embedded > Computing mailing list To post message: [email protected] List info: > http://mail.triembed.org/mailman/listinfo/triembed_triembed.org TriEmbed web > site: http://TriEmbed.org To unsubscribe, click link and send a blank > message: mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe >
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