On Thu, 06 Apr 2017 23:51:00 -0400, rickman wrote:

> On 4/6/2017 3:46 PM, Martin Gregorie wrote:
>> On Thu, 06 Apr 2017 19:48:15 +0100, druck wrote:
>>
>>> On 06/04/2017 14:06, James Harris wrote:
>>>> On 06/04/2017 13:12, Daniel James wrote:
>>>>> In article , James Harris wrote:
>>>>>> OK. It's a pity Notepad doesn't handle LF-only endings. Would save
>>>>>> the hassle. But Wordpad does.
>>>>>
>>>>> I heartily recommend Notepad++ for code editing on Windows.
>>>>>
>>>>> Apart from all the other neat things it does, it handles CR/LR/CR+LF
>>>>> endings, and can create an output file with any of those.
>>>>
>>>> I tried Notepad++ years ago but couldn't get used to it. Can't
>>>> remember why now.
>>>
>>> Time to give it another try then.
>>>>
>>>> Notepad is fine for me. Once line wrap is turned off, Notepad will
>>>> allow you to jump to a line by number. That's all I really need other
>>>> than basic editing.
>>>
>>> Well if you can be happy with Notepad, vi is overkill, ed on a
>>> teletype would be the Linux equivalent.
>>>
>> MS used to have an equivalent - remember edlin?
>
> Yes, and I also remember entering hex on a keypad.  I don't think I've
> ever toggled a bootloader in using toggle switches though.  I'm not
> *that* old!

I've done that on an ICL mainframe.

Our operators could toggle the bootloader in from memory on the 1902 I
first used - it was meant to be loaded by the system pulsing a wire
threaded through the ferrite cores when the CPU was switched on but this
failed from time to time. Cue toggling it in.

Somewhat later, our 1903S had a uniselector added on. This was a single
channel serial port that could drive an ASR33 teletype (remember those?)
but the Executive module that drove it was wrong, so I got to toggle in
corrections each time I used it until it was replaced with a scanner,
which did the same job but handled higher baud rates over several serial
connections and was supported by George 3, the ICL 1900 multi-user,
multitasking OS.

Imagine that: 4 ASR33 terminals and a a remote job entry device with card
reader and printer, all run by a mainframe with 32Kwords (96KB
equivalent) of ferrite core memory, 0.3 MHz clock speed, two 60MB disk
drives and eight tape decks. Tell that to the young folk these days and
they'll never believe you!


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