On Fri, 2006-11-10 at 06:55 -0500, 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.
The Smithsonian Museum is searching for really old ware to use to translate old media to more modern forms. Perhaps its time to donate. Seems they have a lot of punch paper tape, 8" floppies and some reel to reel tape but need drives. So if your an antique collector you might be of help. -- ___ _ _ _ ____ _ _ _ | | | | [__ | | | |___ |_|_| ___] | \/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org