11 Nov
2008
11 Nov
'08
10:22 a.m.
On 11 Nov 2008 at 10:50, Christian Corti wrote:
As an example, this is the microprogram ROM of a Wang
600:
http://computermuseum.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/dev/wang700/wang700_rom.h…
Regardless of the relevance to the original topic (the LVDC doesn't
use core rope), my point was that if a core rope memory could be
assembled manually, it certainly could be dis-assembled manually.
What isn't clear from the IBM LVDC description is how the programs
were originally loaded into the computer. I don't see any mention of
a boot loader. Was the core programmed separately and then installed
into the LVDC? Or was some sort of fixture attached for programming?
Cheers,
Chuck