Yup. Them wuz th' days awright.

Actually it musta been a couple years later, 'cuz we were able to include
the bootstrap program in the same deck of cards.


"Brian Tillman" wrote:

stephanie wrote:

Sure. I was trained to program when all we had was a toggle switch.
Had to master machine language before we were allowed to tackle an
assembler language. Cards and knitting needles.

This brings back memories of the IBM 1620 I used in high school in my
programming course (1968). It has sense switches we could use to control
the flow of the program. We did program in machine language (none of this
high-level assembly language for us, no sir!) and we had to load the machine
loader card deck first in order to tell the machine to load our card deck.
The true meaning of "bootstrap".
--
Brian Tillman