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<font face="Arial">Yep, toggles, started with a NOVA 1200 core
machine and moved up to an Eclipse that actually had something
resembling an OS (that I didn't have to write).<br>
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Also BC<br>
(Before Chickens)<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/27/2015 04:37 AM, Dan Sheehan via
Stagecraft wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">DEC PDP-8's in GenRad 1790-series board testers.
<div>12 bits wide, octal notation for 4 3-bit groups.</div>
<div>Hand-toggled in a few machine code instructions to boot it
up.</div>
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<div>That was well back in BC </div>
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<div>(Before Children)</div>
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