That is easy to beat.
I remember setting the boot loader on an * bit computer by grounding the
various Nan gates and cycling through the first 15 instruction to start a
Teletype paper tape reader th input the operating system ventage mid 50's
By the way does anyone recall why a 1 & 0 is called a bit and there are 8 bits
to a bite?
Simple on the old Teletypes the reader fingers looked like drill bits and the
tapes were 8 bits wide 3 bits reader track fader holes and then 5 bits. Each
time the Teletype inputed a word it sounded and acted like it was taking a
bite of tape.
PS. I still have a copy of the old operating system.
Frank
n Monday 16 August 2004 17:29, Ed Centanni wrote:
> Dated?! You want dated?
>
> I remember doing Fortran on punch cards.
>
> Ed.
>
> mark@bish.net wrote:
> > On Sat, 14 Aug 2004, Ed Centanni wrote:
> >>Already been through Camille, Eloise, and Frederick and ....
> >>
> >>Ed Centanni.
> >
> > Darn Ed, kinda dating yourself there aren't ya? :)
> >
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