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Re: CR/LF problems after upgrade


On Thu, 18 Jan 2007, Cary Jamison wrote:

> Dave Korn wrote:
> > On 18 January 2007 08:48, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >> You saplings.  In my first microcomputer course we only had 8-bit
> >> boards with a hex keyboard and a 2 digit LED display.  Every program
> >> which result you can't display within 2 hex digits is a waste of
> >> electrons.
> >
> >  These guys are talking punched cards and KSRs and you had your own
> > personal single-board microcomputer?  And you think that makes you
> > older?
> >
> >  ASR-33 = 1963
> >
> >  KIM-1  = 1975
> >
> >  Whippersnapper!
> >
> >    cheers,
> >      DaveK
>
> Yea, what he said!
>
> I used to have memorized the binary codes to toggle in the front panel
> of a PDP-8 the bootstrapper for the paper tape reader attached to the
> side of the KSR.  Then you could load in your real program.

Ah, PDP-8...  Now, there was an architecture.  Of course, 8 stood for the
number of opcodes, didn't it?  3-bit opcodes, 12-bit words.  Yay!

> Of course, toggling in the program to make the lights go round and round
> was more entertaining!  12-bit words, never did figure out the reasoning
> behind that!

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blinkenlights>
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