On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 15:21:22 -0800, 'Captain' Kirk DeHaan
wrote:

How about entering code on a front panel keyboard in octal on an old
Heathkit 8 bit computer.

I go back further than that. My first computer was a homebrew that
used an 8008, and yes, bootstraps were loaded via front panel
switches. ROM? What's that?