7 Dec
2020
7 Dec
'20
10:32 a.m.
On Mon, 2020-12-07 at 12:42 +0100, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
On Mon, 7 Dec 2020 at 12:28, Maciej W. Rozycki
<macro at linux-mips.org>
wrote:
The first computer I was paid to write software for didn't require me
to toggle in a boot loader: The IBM 1401 in 1966.
All I had to do was push the load key on the card reader, or the tape
load key on the operator console. And it didn't even have a teletype
console.
Well, I guess for some anything that does not
require you to
toggle inthe boot loader or doesn't have a teletype console
terminal is surely toomodern to even consider.
:-D
One of the things I enjoy about this group is that some of
thediscussions and the memories make me feel young...