From: nowhere@nevernet.at   
      
   On 16/02/2022 10:40, 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?   
      
   Yes, all of it (switches,lamps and buttons) on my NOVA II,   
   8KB magnetic core memory needed 30 Ampere to write to it,   
   but it also had an impressive 100KB 3M cassette drive.   
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   wolfgang   
      
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