-=> Quoting David Noon to Leonard Erickson <=-

 DN> In a message dated 10-23-99, Leonard Erickson said to Dirk Stuijfzand
 DN> about "Computer History"

 DN> Hi Leonard,
 
 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 side of
 DN> the ASR 33 TTY that was used as a system console. I was still a mere
 DN> slip of a boy the last time I did that.

No, this was on old Honeywell system. you entered the *octal* codes at
at the proper addresses then I forget where it read the boot routines
from, I think it was a Tape, but it might have been a disk pack. I
heard that some systems had to boot from the card reader 



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