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Re: Re: OT Home Highway, is it worth it?



Right then.

When _I_ were a lad,
we had get up three hours before we went to bed,
lick road clean wi' tongue,
pick ferrite chunks out of the grit,
form a rudimentary storage media from the chunks,
magnetise the bread knife and wave it over the media to programme the bits.
Work a twenty six hour day down at the code monkey bunker
Then Father would thrash us to sleep with bootstrap.

<grin>
Andy
----- Original Message -----
From: "John McManus" <john.mcmanus@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 3:13 PM
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Re: OT Home Highway, is it worth it?


> PAH!
>
> I remember building a 6800? at school... we had to use binary switches
to
> set the address, then the op code & hit an 'enter' button.  Once
sufficient
> bootstrap info was in, you could execute the program & read other
programs
> from punched tape.
>




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