David Noon wrote in a message to Leonard Erickson:

 DS> (Now we get the OS/2 users who punched cards in the past to enter data
 DS> into computers)

LE>Not only have I punched cards, I've toggled bootstrap code into a
LE>mainframe.

 DN> That was, of course, the paper tape bootstrap so that the disk 
 DN> bootstrap could be read through the paper tape reader on the 
 DN> side of the ASR 33 TTY that was used as a system console. I was 
 DN> still a mere slip of a boy the last time I did that.

How about _typing_ in the boot code for a PDP-11/03 to get it to load the
absolute loader paper tape which could then be used to load some other paper
tape (like BASIC ferinstance)...

Does that count?  :-)

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