If you sit me down in front of a Varian 620A,
I think I could toggle in a boot for it.
My RCA Cosmac (CMOS 4 bit processor) kit used
toggles switches.
Dang, I think I need to write a PIC program that
uses toggles switches and emulates something like
a 4004.

Heh, heh, heh.....


-----Original Message-----
From: M. Adam Davis [mailto:adavis@UBASICS.COM]
Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2000 2:01 PM
To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: [OT] "Best" Editor (was: "Syntax Highlighting in MPLAB")


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

James Newton wrote:
>
> Years ago, I saw a program (a .com) that could be entered by
> COPY CON HEX2BIN.COM
>
> Some guy had figured out how to write the program by mapping instruction
> opcodes to ASCII keystrokes! So after you typed that in, you could, in
fact
>
> COPY CON BINARY.HEX
> HEX2BIN < BINARY.HEX > BINARY.COM
>
> Yeah! That's a real programmer! <Sniff><Adjust waistband>
>
> Is this where I brag about writing Win32 app's in MASM?
>
> ---
> James Newton (PICList Admin #3)
> mailto:jamesnewton@piclist.com 1-619-652-0593
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pic microcontroller discussion list
> [mailto:PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU]On Behalf Of andy howard
> Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2000 11:18
> To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject: Re: [OT] "Best" Editor (was: "Syntax Highlighting in MPLAB")
>
> > From: "M. Adam Davis" <adavis@UBASICS.COM>
> > Every real programer uses EDLIN under DOS 3.1.
> > -Adam
>
> Nah, COPY CON PROGRAM.HEX