10 Nov
2006
10 Nov
'06
13:58
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.