On Tue, 18 Apr 2000, M. Adam Davis wrote:

> Actually, it's about time for someone to talk about entering programs using a
> bank of switches and blinking lights...

Been there, done that.  IBM 360/40 hand loops for diagnostics.  Also had
some short games (like C0FFEE).  The 2030 was a pain, all dials instead of
the baton switches.

Done it with a PDP-11/34, too...  I only wish I'd ever had the fun of an
Imsai or Altair.

> "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!"

Yep...  <snaps suspenders>...  Darn near sprained a wrist that way one
day...  <grin>

Dale

>
> -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
>

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