28 Feb
2008
28 Feb
'08
6:50 p.m.
On Thursday 28 February 2008 13:39, Mike Loewen wrote:
On Thu, 28 Feb 2008, Geoffrey Bunza wrote:
New desktop wallpaper! :-)
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Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
ablest -- form of life in this section of space, ?a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. ?--Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James
M Dakin
On the note of the CDC 6600 machines, et al.,
There was a peripheral
processor which was used to boot the mainframe, and it had many rows of
toggle switches, in groups of 18 or 36 if I remember right, which either
contained the boot code or controlled the boot. The peripheral processor
was a computer in its own right by any standards.
Here's a picture of the Dead Start Program panel:
http://sturgeon.css.psu.edu/~mloewen/CDC6600-7.jpg 