Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/04/25

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Subject: [Leica] noctilux factoid of the day - computer history/nostalgia
From: jbm at jbm.org (Jeff Moore)
Date: Fri Apr 25 20:38:40 2008
References: <48126C64.2060704@gmx.de> <20080426010020.PWMY24465.eastrmmtao103.cox.net@eastrmimpo01.cox.net> <015401c8a74b$edc007b0$c9401710$@net>
 
2008-04-25-23:16:32 Frank Filippone:
> If you owned a PC as your first computer user, you ain't old enough to be 
> an
> old Fart.
> 
> Old Farts used real manly computers.... things with attached air
> conditioners....... and paper punched tape done on a Teletype
> machine......or maybe toggle switches for the boot......

EggZACtly.  Real old farts can debate the merits of oiled versus
Mylar-backed paper tape (well, there's little to debate, actually --
cheap and ubiquitous versus fancy and expensive but much less prone to
destruction).  Toggle switches?  The boot sequence for that PDP-11/40
from an RK05 disk is burned into my memory:

   173100
   <load address> 
   177406
   <boot>

Okay, I admit: that last octal digit has become hazy -- 6 may be a
guess.

 -Jeff
In reply to: Message from douglas.sharp at gmx.de (Douglas Sharp) ([Leica] noctilux factoid of the day - computer history/nostalgia)
Message from kcarney1 at cox.net (Ken Carney) ([Leica] noctilux factoid of the day - computer history/nostalgia)
Message from red735i at earthlink.net (Frank Filippone) ([Leica] noctilux factoid of the day - computer history/nostalgia)