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It's useless and I love it

• dgan 4y ago
  it's pointless and I don't see what to love about it
  • ThrowawayTestr 4y ago
    It's whimsical and reminds us what computer input used to be.
    • eschneider 4y ago
      Ooof, yeah. I'm old enough to have done time inputting programs on a PDP-11 front panel this way. O_O
      • ThrowawayTestr 4y ago
        Nevermind assembly, you guys were literally writing the bits by hand.
        • eschneider 4y ago
          We'd write assembly, hand assemble it to binary, then toggle it in, whee!
  • robterrell 4y ago
    It's nostalgic in the best/worst way! Anyone old enough to remember the start of the 8-bit era (not the Apple ][+ and the Commodore Pet and the SOL, but before those, the Altair and IMSAI and the Byte-8) will have memories of using these switches to input a bootloader-type program that would let you load a stored program from an optical paper tape reader or a magnetic cassette tape. Set all the bits for a byte & store it, set all the bits for the next byte & store it...
  • moron4hire 4y ago
    People are allowed to screw around and do not owe you a justification for how they use their time. You don't like the thing they made? It's not for you. You aren't the center of the universe. Not everything is about you.
  • loudthing 4y ago
    It demonstrates how technology we take for granted obfuscates how complex basic tasks can be.