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For more on this kind of programming, check out the excellent deramp5113 channel on YouTube. He goes over how programs were entered on the front panel of the first desktop minicomputers in the 70s like the Altair 8800, and then how that transformed into paper tape and PROMs. Plus lots of other great early computing stuff like operating systems and teletype operation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suyiMfzmZKs&list=PLB3mwSROoJ4KLWM8KwK0cD1dhX35wILBj https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suyiMfzmZKs&list=PLB3mwSROoJ... (Also available at the Internet Archive for a no-ads but slightly clunkier experience: https://archive.org/details/movies?query=creator%3A%22mike+douglas%22&sort=publicdate&page=2 https://archive.org/details/movies?query=creator%3A%22mike+d... )