Re: [SLUG] operating systems and schools

[David]

On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Richard Hayes wrote:
> 
> When I started I had the pleasure of using a Dec PDP-11/45 where I could
> toggle the individual registers using 18 switched on the processor.
> 
> After about 20 minutes of maddly changing switches you may have enough
> 'smarts' to boot a tape.
> 

My turn... When I started I used an IBM 1401 with a massive
12K (sic) of ram (ferrite core). If something fell into the
CPU, you would get parity errors at progressively higher
addresses as the item dropped progressively through the
ferrite cores. We wrote in assembler or machine code. There
was NO operating system (in 12K? you have to be kidding). Each
program booted and was read from punched cards.

There were 12 analysts and programmers in the department
running this one machine.

David.

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