Re: Slightly off-topic
From: Pablo Sanchez <pablo_at_dev.null>
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 12:48:40 -0600
Message-ID: <Xns930A7828FE9F4pingottpingottbah_at_216.166.71.233>
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 12:48:40 -0600
Message-ID: <Xns930A7828FE9F4pingottpingottbah_at_216.166.71.233>
Frank <fvanbortel_at_netscape.net> wrote in news:3E2D9681.60104_at_netscape.net:
> I can beat your cards, tho, with a TI960; it had to be programmed
> with toggleswitches; after entering the right (binary, 16 bit) code,
> you had to "clock" it manually into memory. Bootloader was about 35
> lines of code...
I recall an internship at Hughes where we used a similar HP computer with the toggleswitches.
Anyway, so much for memory lane (pun intended! <g>)
-- Pablo Sanchez, High-Performance Database Engineering http://www.hpdbe.comReceived on Tue Jan 21 2003 - 19:48:40 CET