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Old 06-28-2013, 08:24 PM   #160
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Originally Posted by PeterT View Post
Ah yes... the carriage control tape for a 1403 line printer, and also the boot loaded for a DEC-10 system. Those were the days.
Memories of toggling in the first boot loader for a Data General Nova minicomputer and then reading the 4 bits at a time punched tape with the boot loader to get the loader for the full OS. Nothing like toggling switches for 10 minutes to find that you made a mistake and the boot loader didn't run.

My first S-100 bus computer had a front panel, the next edition had a home brewed boot EPROM that allowed me to do quite a bit of stuff from the console including reading a Tarbell format cassette tape to load programs. The fun of driving down to Seattle to buy a specific model of portable cassette tape player from J. C. Penney as it was THE recommended unit.

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