13 Feb
1999
13 Feb
'99
2:34 a.m.
Doug wrote:
I'm really looking for when lights were first used
for output and switches
used for input, similar to the way a bunch of the mini front panels
worked. (It may be that Simon was the first -- I dunno.)
Well the Manchester baby machine had only switches for input in 1948.
Output was by CRT display of the memory contents which might be thought
of as lights.
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