My first job at TI was maintaining equipment that was used to test
integrated circuits. The heart of the system was a TI Mini computer. The
cold boot process consisted of inputting several 16 bit "words" into the
computer using micro switches on the front panel. This process told the
system how to interface with the card reader. After that was performed, the
"Executive Command Routine" was loaded via the card reader. That then
allowed the user to load he program being used to test the particular
product. The process took about a half hour on a good day so we never
turned them off or we lost productivity. One day one of the operators
decided that she was going to save energy while she went to lunch and turned
it off. :(
Her supervisor bounced off every wall in the building. Needless to say, she
never did that again.
Joe
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From: fot-bounces@autox.team.net [mailto:fot-bounces@autox.team.net] On
Behalf Of Bill Babcock
Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2008 5:40 PM
To: Tony Drews
Cc: fot@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Fot] State of F1
My first expansion chamber program too three boxes of punch card
FORTRAN. What a pleasure it was to translate it into MBasic and store
it on a 5 1/2" floppy disk. I later rewrote it and refined it in Turbo
Pascal. No idea where it is now.
On Oct 23, 2008, at 5:30 PM, Tony Drews wrote:
> Very cool. Did my first programming on a TI-99, and figured out how
> to hook the family cassette recorder up to it to save and reload the
> program (a crappy pac-man rip-off). Graduated to a Kaypro
> "luggable" using CP/M and its' awful version of Basic. Was the last
> year of the punch card programming class at Univ of Illinois. Took
> one semester of assembly language and after the interesting first 3
> weeks of novelty decided I HATED assembly language programming. A
> hundred line program to sort a linked list of numbers? Give me a
> break!
>
> - Tony Drews
>
> At 11:20 AM 10/23/2008, Joe Curry wrote:
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