Gerry Creager wrote:
Robert G. Brown wrote:
[...]
OK, in a minute you'll have me reminiscing about booting from paper tape
and havin' to drill me own 'oles wit' me teeth...
;-)
Glad you smiled with that. Seems I find myself teaching an OS class all
of a sudden this summer. I recounted my experience with an old HP
system where the boot-loader was toggled in on front panel switches and
the OS was loaded with paper tape. The kids (whose language experience
ranges from Java to PHP, with C# thrown in for good measure) looked at
me like I was reciting either fiction or lore.
Hello, Gerry.
I have fond memories of doing something similar with a hex keypad on a
pdp11/34, to boot Unix version 7 from mag tape. When I left that job,
they gave me the pdp11/34 as a 'joke' leaving present, and I took it!
I wouldn't be surprised if other people on this list have had pdp's or
older kit running in their living rooms: I upgraded mine to a pdp11/23
when the University scrapped one. I used it to run the UK MUGNET mail
and news 'backbone' site for a while, dialling up Cistron Electronics in
the Netherlands in the middle of the night to get feeds at 1200 baud.
I was good fun, but the weight of all the 'spare' rl02's and rk05's in
my loft were a bit of a worry ;-)
Tony.
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