> Actually, it's about time for someone to talk about entering programs using a
> bank of switches and blinking lights...
>
> "Terminal?  Heck, kid, we didn't even know what a teletype was!  Punch cards
> were too expensive for us back then.  We switched the switches, and hope we
> didn't enter into an infinite loop, thats whut we did!"
>
> -Adam
>
Luxury

We used to have to run paper tape in an actual physical
loop (with sellotape holding end to beginning) to boot a
PDP11.

And when we got home we had to lick road clean with
tongue.

Try and tell the young people toady that.. and they wont
believe you.


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Lance Allen
Technical Officer
Uni of Auckland
Psych Dept
New Zealand

www.psych.auckland.ac.nz

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