PDP-11's? Ours had a boot EPROM which saved a lot of time :-)
The one in the student digital logic lab didn't, but you could write your
program on the console switches, switch the machine off, come back next day
and *voila!* your program is still there. Ideal teaching machine at the
time, even if it did draw 10 Amps at 5 volts just to run the thing.
Core planes were hand threaded by the good ladies of Mexico.
No doubt if you find one, chances are that the program is still in it, still
readable.
Cheers,
Jill.
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Jill Rowling
Senior Design Engineer & Unix System Administrator
Electronic Engineering Department, Aristocrat Leisure Industries
3rd Floor, 77 Dunning Ave Rosebery NSW 2018
Phone: (02) 9697-4484 Fax: (02) 9663-1412
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Hayes [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2000 11:41 AM
> To: Jon Biddell; slug
> Subject: Re: [SLUG] operating systems and schools
>
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> After about 20 minutes of maddly changing switches you may have enough
> 'smarts' to boot a tape.
>
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