From: muta...@gmail.com   
      
   What is the worst people had to do, presumably on   
   early computers, to get a program/OS loaded? Did   
   you have to enter a program one byte at a time with   
   a set of 8 switches? Did you have another set of   
   16 switches for the address in memory, and then   
   press an "enter" switch?   
      
   Were there lights to see what was already at a   
   particular address? And after all that effort, what   
   was the mechanism to save the entered data to   
   permanent storage, and load it again?   
      
   Thanks. Paul.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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