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I have yet to watch this, but I am pretty sure that the first two bytes of the loader, are 063, 307. I loaded Altair Basic dozens of times as a teenager in the
by jeffbarr 12y ago
I have yet to watch this, but I am pretty sure that the first two bytes of the loader, are 063, 307. I loaded Altair Basic dozens of times as a teenager in the late 1970's.
Am I right?
- Gracana 12y ago"First two bytes are 41 and 256," he says. How would a byte be 307? Or 256, for that matter. I must be missing something basic. Hah. [edit] Oh, octal. Five groups of three plus the one on the end. That makes sense and also explains how he's so easily plugging in the numbers.
- walshemj 12y agoAlso DEC PDP's used OCD octal coded decimal - I had once or twice to manually load the boot strap when our pdp 11/40 boot strap loader subsystem had a fault.