John Ings said the following on 1/5/2005 4:25 PM:
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?
The Heathkit used a cassette tape.
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Kirk
"Screw the planes, take a train", Me
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