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Old Dec 10th, 2009, 04:15 PM
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Wire-wrapped back-planes? *shudder*


Yeah, I had it easy. All I had to do was the use jumpers to program card sorting machines for an IBM 360:


However, I did celebrate DEC-8 day by IPL'ing a PDP-8 with the front toggle switches before running a set of commands using OCL (DEC's octal control language):

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Yeah, I had it easy. All I had to do was the use jumpers to program card sorting machines for an IBM 360:


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