There was a guy around the University of Waterloo (Gerry Wheeler) who the first Computer Club meeting loaded 4K basic into volatile memory the hard way with switches only to have no choice but to power down at the end of the evening. This fate is worse than having someone "accidentally" power down his computer. Memories are wire wrapping 64K of 2101's. w.. Russell McMahon wrote: > When I was a boy we only had binary switches for all input (address and > data). -- http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads