25 Jul
2006
25 Jul
'06
10:20 a.m.
"Al Kossow" wrote:
The cold-load on all but the very last of the systems were from cassette. I ha
ve them, but need to read their contents.
yes, I remember that :-) I remember looking at s-machine docs too. I
seem to remember lots of BNF like diagrams. I was young and
not-well-educated at the time.
I used COBOL and thought I remembered fortran and algol as well. I
remember the machine had a card reader/punch and disks which looked like
RP06's. Booting it was a little odd but not too painful.
I didn't want to mention the cassettes, mostly due to the terror of
thinking about reading them. But now I've said the words and wondering
whats on them - microcode? How would you read them?
(isn't this how you always find your victims? :-) "sure, just try and
disassemble the micrcode, how hard could it be?" :-)
hmmm... they're just cassettes. how hard could it be? :-) I'm willing
to try if you have any extra tapes.
-brad