At 01:28 p.m. 12/02/2011, Roger Hicks wrote:
Ah, those were the days, and before then! When you started a computer by toggling in the machine code bootstrap into memory from the console, when the computer had a 39-bit word or had machine code in reverse polish notation. Yes, needs beer.
I used to be able to recite the boostrap loader sequence, but these days can only remember the consol address (177576 - octal). Likewise, it was a mandatory recitation for loading the fanfold
On 13/02/2011 6:22 p.m., Richard Naylor wrote: papertape diagnostics. The first word was 012737, which is all I remember of it. That plus all the i/o registers being in the top 4k address space. It was FS engineer bread and butter to toggle in little ditty programs to set the Go bit and test for Ready. Dave