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.
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