22 Mar
2007
22 Mar
'07
2:59 p.m.
From Tom Watson -
Sorry wrong bits!! Wrong code set!
11101000 11001001 11000111 11001000 11100011 01000000 11010110 11010101
01011010
4900796 (Somebody will understand this reference)
Someone is trying to boot Fortran off of the Disk on an IBM 1620 me thinks...
Steve Wilson
22 Mar
22 Mar
7:20 p.m.
On 22 Mar 2007 at 14:59, Steve Wilson wrote:
Isn't 00796 where all-well-behaved programs went to die? I.e. reload
Montior (sort of a CALL EXIT)?
--Chuck
4900796
(Somebody will understand this reference)
Someone is trying to boot Fortran off of the Disk on an IBM 1620 me thinks... 
8:21 p.m.
173000G ?
At 02:59 PM 3/22/2007 -0700, you wrote:
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216. [Literature] Publishers are so conservative, I'm surprised they don't
still use scribes writing on wet clay slabs. --David Brin
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From Tom Watson
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Sorry wrong bits!! Wrong code set!
11101000 11001001 11000111 11001000 11100011 01000000 11010110 11010101
01011010
4900796 (Somebody will understand this reference)
Someone is trying to boot Fortran off of the Disk on an IBM 1620 me thinks...
Steve Wilson
23 Mar
23 Mar
8:09 a.m.
At 09:48 PM 3/22/2007 -0700, you wrote:
On 22 Mar 2007 at 22:21, Tom Peters wrote:
> 173000G ?
Sorry, wrong universe.
I used to have a DEC LSI-11/02 type box with no -12 power supply.
Everything worked just peachy, except that the little inverter that powered
the boot ROMs didn't wake up fast enough. So the machine would always power
up to an ODT prompt. 173000G would boot from RK05, and that has always
stuck in my brain.
No, honest--I just checked my own memory. 4900796 is,
in fact, what
1620 SPS assembled for a
CALL EXIT
statement. Essentially a B7 to MONCAL, which reloaded the Monitor I
operating system.
Cheers,
Chuck
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383. [Philosophy] A man's life is what his thoughts make it. --Marcus Aurelius
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