28 Feb
2008
28 Feb
'08
12:31 p.m.
John Floren wrote:
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 10:39 AM, Mike Loewen
<mloewen at cpumagic.scol.pa.us> wrote:
You, sir, have a gift for understatement.
Peace... Sridhar
On Thu, 28 Feb 2008, Geoffrey Bunza wrote:
It's... beautiful! 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
