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Originally Posted by MikeP928
Let's all go back to writing machine code in octal.  |
Octal ?
You lazy lazy man... What ever happened to enter it in binary via 8 flip-switches directly into the core ?
Heck, I recall the days when we had to use our 300 baud modems, to connect across the country at LD charges. and if one of them failed, we had to whistle the tones down a modem line, and hoping we weren't off-key.
All them guys with their symbolic assemblers, VDU line editors and such, they really got it easy..
My first Nascom computer had a hexpad and a 8 digit LED display.. Great fun entering Z80 machine code on that one...
(yep.. looks like this is going into "Old Farts talking about the computing youth" thread...)
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