Front panel switches - what did they do?

[Charles Anthony]

On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 9:25 AM, Swift Griggs <swiftgriggs at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 24 May 2016, william degnan wrote:
> > Here's a power point pres I did at VCF-E4, this will get you started.
> > Using Altair 680b front panel in basic terms is covered a few slides in.
> > http://vintagecomputer.net/vcf4/How_to_Session/
>
> There are some nice clean photos in that presentation. So, it was binary
> with some hexadecimal addressing. I like the slide entitled "How to test
> Machine Language Using a Program Listing Using Toggle Switches". That's
> pretty hard core. I'm surprised they didn't at least use component
> displays with LEDs to show the values rather than reading it straight off
> some blinkenlights. Maybe those weren't around yet or were too expensive.
>
> -Swift
>
>
Honeywell 6180 display panels:
http://jimsoldtoys.blogspot.com/2016/03/honeywell-6180-system-maintenance-panel.html

-- Charles