If you want to learn more about what he's doing on the front panel there, check out this fantastic introduction to how the first PCs were operated with front pa

If you want to learn more about what he's doing on the front panel there, check out this fantastic introduction to how the first PCs were operated with front panel switches. This series is about the Altair 8800 but the same ideas apply to most computers of the era. It starts out writing programs with front panel switches, then shows how bootloader programs worked to load larger programs off of tape or some other IO mechanism. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suyiMfzmZKs&list=PLB3mwSROoJ4KLWM8KwK0cD1dhX35wILBj https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suyiMfzmZKs&list=PLB3mwSROoJ...