Re: [chat] MTA wars

[Terry Collins <terryc@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Jon Biddell wrote:

...snip......

> -=> Does anyone remember the hex bytes to boot a Honeywell?
> -=>
> 
> Your point ??  Given that the hardware is so old, I seriously doubt
> there is any in operation anywhere, the knowledge is itself useless.

Australian Computer Museum mob probably has one. I think John G is of
that era.


Umm, I did have notes on a TPG 16/64 that you booted various ways
(different addresses) depending on what you were doing (normal day, end
of day, end of month, backup, etc). It mightily annoyed the office girls
that I could be given 8 hex numbers (2 x 4) and know which ways to set
the switches, whereas they had to be given 1up, 2 down, 2up, etc.

Then of course there were the PDP 11's and their variations. so much fun
having to hand compile and load an assembler program in my first
computer lab. Pox on you of course, because I've just jumped up to see
when the PDP 11 handbook is. (yes I still have it) and of course, it
isn't there atm. Now it will bug me until I relocate it. {:-).


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