Ok, you dinosaurs, I challenge you with that: does anyone remember those 4 bit machines that were programmed using a small board with a lot of holes and the instructions were "written" with those small black somethings (they looked like mushrooms, but I don't know their name in English)? :)

Vlad

>Yes,
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>256 BYTES. You programmed each byte by assigning bits and then Store or Execute or...I forget....but it was tedious.
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>>256 bytes? :)
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>>Vlad
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>>>Mid-70's meant to me Pong and, a year or so later, the Altair with the big blue box, toggle switches and 256 bytes of memory.
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>>>>Thanks for "validating" me ... I remember that old "green card"! Don't know if I still have it or not tho. < g >
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>>>>I think John and Vlad must be thinking of later years, not the mid-'70s. We must be OLD!! < g >
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>>>>Bonnie
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>>>>>My vintage "green card" refers to it as 360/Assembler.
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>>>>>Cheers,
>>>>>
>>>>>Jim N