@enf Whoa. Programming Manchester Baby 1, 1948, using a teletype: http://curation.cs.manchester.ac.uk/computer50/www.computer50.org/mark1/notes.html …
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Just found the article I remembered about this! https://archive.org/details/programming-the-mark-i … "…programmers should begin by learning the teleprinter sequence…"pic.twitter.com/unp9BnnFX3
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Whoa. “There was no assembly language defined for the Mark 1. Programs had to be written and submitted in binary form.”
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So those jokes about a keyboard with 0 and 1 for programmers are not… wrong.
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Although I guess it’s the same thing with Altair in 1975 and DECs in between.
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I'm glad I missed that era of computing and at least got to start with ROM BASIC and cassette tapes
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I wonder how many people ever used the front panel switches for anything longer than getting a bootloader in to start from some other medium
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Thanks again for sharing this. I’ll try to incorporate this bit into the Univac/early computers chapter – writing tomorrow.
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Great! Glad to hear was useful and not just amusing
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I think it’s a great example of just how unfriendly computers/keyboards were then.
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