Brings back memories of the school PDP-8/e, Teletypes, and punched paper tape: Coding on tape - computer science A-level 1970s style - BBC News ![Nerd](https://forums.contractoruk.com/core/images/smilies/nerd.gif)
If you were first in the computer room (happened a lot during holidays - we were allowed to go in and use it then, which was cool) then you had to enter the bootstrap code in binary (which you converted to from the octal in the listing printed in the manual, in your head) using the switches on the front![Smile](https://forums.contractoruk.com/core/images/smilies/smile.png)
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If you were first in the computer room (happened a lot during holidays - we were allowed to go in and use it then, which was cool) then you had to enter the bootstrap code in binary (which you converted to from the octal in the listing printed in the manual, in your head) using the switches on the front
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