It was a damned shame when they took away the switch register, my first recollection of that was the 11/34, it had 7-segment LED displays and calculator style b

It was a damned shame when they took away the switch register, my first recollection of that was the 11/34, it had 7-segment LED displays and calculator style buttons. You could still load programs, but you did not have to convert octal to binary in your head to do that. example: http://www.technology.niagarac.on.ca/people/mcsele/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/PDP11Panel.jpg http://www.technology.niagarac.on.ca/people/mcsele/wp-conten... Some later models simply had a boot button. No more blinkenlights. So sad.