It was even worse, they manually flipped toggle switches to write the program
For anyone interested. Here’s a video of programming an EEPROM with dip switches and using it to drive a seven segment display.
The guy’s channel also includes how to build a very simple computer using various ICs. If breadboard computers are your kind of thing.
That was great, thanks for sharing:)
The binary says ‘Meme’
This is a weird meme to me. Have you ever made something like a simple accumulator machine out of logic gates, OP? You literally just program them in binary, although usually the instructions are expressed in hexadecimal. You make your own instruction set. When we did ours in Compsci foundations I just decided that 0x06 was going to be my jump at negative instruction. I could have wired the logic so that instruction was at a different value, it’s literally possible to make your own instruction set, then your own assembly language, and then your own compiler, and your own programming language. People, mostly women at first, did this for every new computer their institution built at first.
Nah. They punched cards.
(Too bad shittywatercolors is not on lemmy)
Technically morse code is just on/off on/off lol
Come on, we at least used hex digits.
https://archive.org/details/your-sinclair-61/page/n27/mode/2up
