[raspberry-vi] Re: Now my Linux life is complete...
- From: Mike Ray <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: raspberry-vi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 13:02:20 +0000
My first computer was a card reading machine...I made it out of an empty
cereal box and eight knitting needles. when you pulled one of the
needles out the corresponding card fell out the bottom.
Eight bit technology, RAM 1 byte.
On 20/01/2014 03:16, Jim Kutsch, KY2D wrote:
> Yeah, I did that too. In fact, after several dozen times of switching in the
> boot loader in octal, I had most of it memorized. Smile.
>
> I remember using my audio light probe to read the hex readout on an IBM 1130
> console while debugging an assembly language program too. All the sighted
> programmers really wondered what the blind guy was doing with the high and
> low pitched tones.
>
> Jim
>
>
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> On January 19, 2014, Jim Kutsch, KY2D wrote:
>> New fangled 9-track tape? No way. You should find a punched paper tape
>> reader for your Pi.
> Bah, you kids and your fancy "punched paper tape readers". Real programmers
> code by using switches to jump the GPIO pins. (grins)
>
> -tim
>
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