24 May
2016
24 May
'16
9:25 a.m.
On Tue, 24 May 2016, william degnan wrote:
Here's a power point pres I did at VCF-E4, this
will get you started.
Using Altair 680b front panel in basic terms is covered a few slides in.
http://vintagecomputer.net/vcf4/How_to_Session/
There are some nice clean photos in that presentation. So, it was binary
with some hexadecimal addressing. I like the slide entitled "How to test
Machine Language Using a Program Listing Using Toggle Switches". That's
pretty hard core. I'm surprised they didn't at least use component
displays with LEDs to show the values rather than reading it straight off
some blinkenlights. Maybe those weren't around yet or were too expensive.
-Swift