Hi, so you could load the tape from the punch reader, assuming someone hadn't punched and extra hole you could then boot the operating system in to 2K of core. - we got a bit smarter and made a memory card with eprom - burned with a 6802 development system.
Maurice -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 16 September 2004 1:50 p.m. To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Offtopic List Subject: RE: [DUG-Offtopic] Intel Evolution Phil, stop showing my age... PORTRAN, jeez. Next, you'll be bringing up my memories of bootstrapping a PDP-8 by flipping switches on the front panel! From: "Phil Scadden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Organization: Geological and Nuclear Sciences To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], NZ Borland Developers Group - Offtopic List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date sent: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 13:31:40 +1200 Subject: RE: [DUG-Offtopic] Intel Evolution Priority: normal Send reply to: NZ Borland Developers Group - Offtopic List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <offtopic.ns3.123.co.nz> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > You really don't want to hear about the days of card punches or (god > > forbid) hand punched cards ....... > > I had nearly forgotten! PORTRAN wasn't it via the BNZ? But then you had > such interesting ways to create despair. Put an extra card at the end of > the program with badly dog-eared edge and tags having out. The poor > buggers behind you in the machine get their cards munched. "Accidently" > dropping a stack and then shuffling your enemies data stack while picking > them up. Hiding JCL cards in you data stack. Of course you could do a > lot of damage by merely flexing someone elses stack... > ---------------------------------------------------------- > Phil Scadden, Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences > 764 Cumberland St, Private Bag 1930, Dunedin, New Zealand > Ph +64 3 4799663, fax +64 3 477 5232 > > _______________________________________________ > Offtopic mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/offtopic > > cheers, peter =========================================== Peter Hyde, Development Director, SPIS Ltd, Christchurch, New Zealand * TCompress/TCompLHA component sets for Delphi/Kylix/C++ * TurboNote+: http://TurboNote.com -- top-rated onscreen sticky notes Find all the above and MORE at http://spis.co.nz _______________________________________________ Offtopic mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/offtopic _______________________________________________ Offtopic mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/offtopic
