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I started on PDP-11s and big old boards stuffed with 64x1kb RAM so I had it relatively easy. Not quite the same, but every morning the boss would boot the syste
by zh3 4y ago
I started on PDP-11s and big old boards stuffed with 64x1kb RAM so I had it relatively easy. Not quite the same, but every morning the boss would boot the system with 5 sweeps across the toggle switches to key in the bootloader. After that, all we have to do was occasionally move the teletype back into its corner on the room when it went walkies.
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