On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 01:57:46PM -0500, John Francis wrote: > On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 10:30:13AM -0800, Joseph McAllister wrote: > > > > On Mar 4, 2009, at 08:53 , Larry Colen wrote: > > > >> On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 07:19:22AM -0600, Bob Sullivan wrote: > > Sure, if you were into bootstrapping a PDP-11 with the toggles ... > > >From memory, of course. Real programmers don't use documentation. > (although in my case it was initially a PDP-8, not a PDP-11) > > > so it > > knew it had a TTY keyboard into which you keyed the start command so it > > would read the paper tape that loaded the program that put into RAM the > > instructions for running the 80 col. card reader that loaded the > > instructions for using the cassette tape drive that loaded the software > > that told the computer it had a 9" reel to reel tape drive which loaded > > the software program that allowed you to use the serial port and a 9" > > green screen monitor to view the the 300 baud ASCII modem data as you > > 300 Baud? You was lucky! We only had 110 Baud Modems. And ASR-33 > terminals (the ARDS-1s and Tektronix 4010 Storage Tube displays were > upstairs in the main computer room).
You had modems? We had to implement RFC1149! http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1149.txt -- Photographs are like sentences, the best ones have both subjects and verbs. Larry Colen l...@red4est.com http://www.red4est.com/lrc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
