James Knott wrote:
John E. Perry wrote:
Ken Jennings wrote:
... But they only do that when they're too lazy to flip the switches by hand on their Altairs.
Hey, I did that! Well the bootloader, at least -- on Digital PDP-8, PDP-11, HP 2100, hp21mx, General Automation SPC-16, ...
And probably others I can't remember offhand. And the bootloader loaded the absolute binary assembly language program from the paper tape.
Until later, when NASA went deluxe and bought the 14" 5MB hard drives. Then I had much longer bootloaders to key in.
Ah yes, the PDP-8 RIM loader. Brings back (core) memories. ;-)
Incidentally, I still have a core memory plane (4 Kbits IIRC) from a Collins 8500B.
I still have maintain a SEL 32/55 running RTM with 8 8kb core memory modules in it. I turn it off when not needed which is most of the time) but when I turn it back on it starts running right where it left off with out even having to reboot from the 40 MB removable CDC connected to it. Its initial bootstrap is from cards. That card reader still works too. Mark Mark --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org