On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 10:29:42AM -0400, Walter Knopf wrote:
The byte size instructions and addresses were expressed in octal, so the
eight bit RST7 was 377 as compared to FF in hex.
I guess you'd have to have a special instruction lookup table where they
were all converted to three bytes
Eric T. wrote:
When I became an engineering technician we used paper tape to run the
wire-wrap guiding machine.
That was about 1978 or so.
Boy I;m old!
I programmed my first computer (the school's, not mine) via a set of
toggle switches and a pushbutton to enter the binary info into
On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 11:55:16AM -0500, Paul Esterle wrote:
Remember the slanted card racks? I
could pull out a pocket and invert the cards without dropping the stack.
[bowing] MASTER! :)
Still have a card hook around here somewhere.
Hey - I actually know how to use one! Here's a tip
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Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2011 8:55 AM
Subject: Re: [Liveaboard] Punch tapes
Mere youngsters! I can actually remember wiring IBM 407 accounting
machines. Also used a reproducing punch machine that converted inventory
Kimball tags into punched cards. Graduated to an IBM 1407
That was when the bit bucket was actually a bucket of punch card bits...
Made nasty confetti with the sharp edges...
Paul Esterle
Freelance Boating Writer
Capt'n Pauley's Place
The Virtual Boatyard
www.thevirtualboatyard.com
On 2/19/2011 12:44 PM, Ben Okopnik wrote:
On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at
When I became an engineering technician we used paper tape to run the
wire-wrap guiding machine.
That was about 1978 or so.
Boy I;m old!
I sold my boat.
I am now permanently land-bound :-(
Eric Thompson
S/V Procrastinator
South San Francisco
capteri...@sbcglobal.net
.
Walter
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When I became an engineering technician we used paper
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 05:30:02PM -0400, Walter Knopf wrote:
Eric,
my first program was the original Bill Gates MBasic interpreter, took about
20 minutes to load
from one of those tape readers on a terminal.
I skipped that stage - went from punchcards right to the latest advance
in
Ahhh, I sure do miss CP/M...
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Eric
