Chown ???

[Jim]

Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> Jim wrote:
>   
>> Rick Stevens wrote:
>>     
>>> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>>>       
>>>> On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 15:27 +0000, g wrote:
>>>>         
>>>>> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>>>> ttys
>>>>>>             
>>>>> 'b-'. you did not answer which model and usage of paper. :)
>>>>>           
>>>> asr33, paper scroll :-)
>>>>         
>>> ASR33s also had the paper tape punch and reader.  KSR33s did not.  I
>>> had both hooked up to my Altair 8800 back in '77 via 110 baud, 20mA
>>> current
>>> loop serial interfaces.
>>>
>>> Ah, memories!
>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer                      ricks at nerd.com -
>>> - AIM/Skype: therps2        ICQ: 22643734            Yahoo: origrps2 -
>>> -                                                                    -
>>> -        Polygon: A dead parrot (With apologies to John Cleese)      -
>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>>       
>> ASR33 on  a Altair, that far back, You must be at least 100,  I started
>> out on a RCA 1802 8 bit and I still have it.
>> I modified it to work on S100 bus so I could get more memory , 64k , man
>> you were top dog with that kind of memory.
>>
>>     
> Maybe he was talking about an Altair 8008. Intel 8080 processor,
> S-100 bus, front panel with status and data LEDs. Address/data
> toggle switches, and a few control toggles.
>
> Toggle in the paper tape loader in binary. Then load the system
> monitor/program from paper tape. I remember loading an assembler
> from paper tape, and then feeding the program source from another tape.
>
> Mikkel
>   
Yes I'm quite familar with the Altair, that was a time when you couldn't 
buy a inexpensive printer for a micro computer.
A lot of people were also working on interfacing a IBM Selectric to a 
Micro Computer at that time.