[off topic but appropriate] Re: Can't compile Fortran in Fedora 7

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

Richard England wrote:
> Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
>> Tim wrote:
>>>
>>> I still say you're not a real programmer unless you've entered data into
>>> RAM using DIP switches to load the binary.  None of this using a
>>> programmer to do it for you business...
>>>
>>>     
>> I can remember toggling in the papertape loader so that I could load
>> the system monitor, stopping the loader at the end of the tape. The
>> toggle in the start address of the monitor, and start running it. It
>> sure saved a lot of work when the system monitor was finely burned
>> to an EPROM, and you could just start it. But I can not picture
>> using DIP switches to load anything - they are too hard to change
>> and would not take all that many changes. (Unless I am not
>> understanding what you mean by DIP switches - the ones I have seen
>> fit an IC socket.)
>>
>> Mikkel
>>   
> 
> I believe he was referring to the bank of switches on the front panel of
> his computer by which you could set the memory locations, thereby
> entering the boot program.
> 
> Boy what a pain that was.
> 
I agree, they were a pain to use. But they were not DIP switches. I
have used both toggle and rocker style switches, but not DIP switch
on a front panel.

Mikkel
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