From: lucabaker66@gmail.com   
      
   On Wednesday, February 16, 2022 at 10:40:45 PM UTC+13, muta...@gmail.com wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   they did a thing.   
      
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