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Article #490Re: Programming by dinosaurs [Was: Gwbasic - Help needed please]
From: Joe Pylka
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 00:00
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 00:00
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>Yeah, used those simulaneously with the punched cards. Cards
>on the mainframe, paper tape on the DEC mini. At 10cps with an
>ASR33 too. Real fun loading something big like Focal with only a
>checksum on the end of the tape so that you could wait an hour
>or two for the tape to load, only to find that it had had an error
>loading and you had to start over again. Certainly made you check
>that you really did want to load something else before doing that.
It was a red-letter day when we finally programmed a PROM to load the 22
or so locs and data into a PDP-8 so we Could load the tape instead of
entering them in by hand...
But then, this was a machine with core, so we kept FOCAL in memory and
it never went away. It was also nice when the PDP-9 came with the
superspeed paper tape reader.....
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