Posted on Jun 6, 2017
Altair 8800 - Video #7.1 - Loading 4K BASIC with a Teletype
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel - I remember having to learn how to load the paper tape, card reader, magnetic tape, rotating drum, or disk drive bootstrap code into sequential memory locations via binary switches on the dead start panel of the crashed CDC 160A / 1604 / 1700 / 3600 / 6600 and BBN IMP systems in the sub basement in the wee hours of the morning when the vendor technicians were at home and we needed work done. Warmest Regards, Sandy :)
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel - One of my first "C"-Schools was for NAVMACS (v)2 which used a UYK-20. Used a paper tape to load the address list and load troubleshooting routines. Had this system on my first 2 ships, never had to trouble shoot one except in school. I don't even remember how anymore...solid machine.
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1stSgt Nelson Kerr - My guy's say you may like this. Warmest Regards, Sandy
http://www.computerculture.org/2012/02/recalling-the-autodin-part-i/
http://www.computerculture.org/2012/02/recalling-the-autodin-part-i/
Recalling the AUTODIN – Part I
Autodin (short for "AUTOmatic DIgital Network") was the Department of Defense's first computerized message switching system. It was developed to replace a semiautomatic teletype switching system called Plan 55. Like Plan 55, Autodin was developed in the late 50's, early 60's by Western Union. The original five Continental US (CONUS) sites were operated jointly by the military and Western Union. Subsequent sites located in other parts of the...
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SCPO (Join to see) - The AN/UYK-20(V).... LOL I taught that beast at Sub-school. Prior to that was the PDP-11, and the Flexcop system (can't remember the designator off the top of my head). Wow, memory lane.....
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Oh jeez. We used one of those in high school, programming with Basic and Fortran (the original, pre-Fortran 77 version). We mainly used the paper tape to load to mainframe via acoustic modem that would lose the signal if someone sneezed, but we also had a punch card reader that we would use from time to time.
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
Capt Gregory Prickett "The Most Damaging Phrase in the Language is: It's Always Been Done That Way" RADM Grace Hopper.
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
Capt Gregory Prickett "Humans are Allergic to Change. They Love to Say 'We've Always Done it this Way' I Try to Fight That. That's Why I have a Clock on My Wall that Runs Counter-Clockwise" RADM Grace Hopper.
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