Can't resist this one....
Altair 8080. Having to write the bootstrap loader in 32 bytes (may be
wrong on that length) to set the serial port, initialize the disk
controller and where to start loading the bios, that had to be hacked on
for your system. Of course both had to fit in one track on a 8" floppy.
Ah yes, those were the days of flipping switches, address load, (flip
switches, load next, flip switches, load next, repeat as necessary), set
switches for address 0000, load address, run.
Only noseprints, not pitchforks, flaming torches, a rope with a loop
anchored by 13 turns.....
You got away lucky!!!
73 from 807,
Richard, N6NKO
Craig Anderson wrote:
At the risk of digressing clear off the map, in the early 80's I used
to manage a PDP-11/45 Unix v7 system (with BSD 2.7 mods) that
supported 500 active accounts for the university Computer Science
program. This system was highly modified and would crash about once
every 2 weeks and would stomp on the superblock of one or more
filesystems during the crash. The only way to fix it was to use "adb"
to edit the raw disk device and poke in enough numbers into the
superblock so that fsck could reconstruct the filesystem and the rest
of the superblock. With all those students and faculty waiting.....
making nose-prints on the glass of the Computer Center windows.....
watching.....
Now that's real editing.
Craig
On Apr 19, 2009, at 8:18 AM, Gerry Creager wrote:
I'm remiss in not mentioning sed and awk.
David Aitcheson wrote:
Neither Cat (nor Dog) can edit like vi !!!
On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Jason KG4WSV <[email protected]>
wrote:
Nah, there's always cat.
-Jason
kg4wsv
Dave
KB3EFS
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