Old stuff. Was-Re: Topic Change: Does everyone like the Koala

[Norm]

15 equipment racks, thousands of thermionic valves (ECC81 as I recall) and 
having to run the bootstrap using toggle switches on the front panel, just to 
make the card reader work.

address:data	load
address:data	load
address:data	load
address:data	load

run

And the damned thing could only add. Remember 1's complement and add, or was it 
twos compliment??

Running the CP (Cathode Poison)routine every week to make sure no registers got 
bit-stuck

ALL THOSE PRETTY NEON LIGHTS!

Sheesh



Norm McMillan
Mildura, Australia.
The Wintersun City

Phil in the scrub wrote:

........Much snipped
> 
> But  a *lot*  better than the old paper tape and 80 col punched card
> days  eh  :)
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