[thechat] Binary Code of Computers

Hassan Schroeder hassan at webtuitive.com
Wed May 8 19:44:00 CDT 2002


"Luther, Ron" wrote:

> Your question just happened to trigger some 'flash backs' for me ...

I'll see your flashback and raise -- in the early '80s I worked as
a field engineer for a small company that made specialized comm
front ends and disk controllers for CDC mainframes. They were all
based on a PDP-11 clone, and a daily part of the job was entering
boot and diagnostic routines in octal via front-panel switches :-)

Oh, and you needed to punch octal boot routines into a keypad on
the mainframe (3300 and 3500 series) to bring it up, too ...

!! ... haven't thought about that stuff in a while ...
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