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[James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Lew Wolfgang wrote:
> I also was a heavy user of punched paper tape, and remember
> one sat-nav system that used a PDP-8S computer.  This was
> a 12-bit system with a rows of indicators and a switch
> register to enter data.  The computer didn't have non-volatile
> memory and the program (no operating system) had to be loaded
> each time it was turned on.  First, a 64-word paper-tape
> bootstrap program had to be loaded by hand from the switch
> register.  Then you could load the paper tape in the reader
> of an ASR-33 Teletype.  It read the 7-inch diameter roll
> of tape at 110 baud and would take an hour or so to load.

I also used to work on a PDP-8i.

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