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From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
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Subject: Re: Student views on Ada
Date: 22 Sep 1994 10:17:16 -0400
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Marin, front panel lights are for sissies! The first time I programmed
an Incoterm terminal, I had to enter a boot loader from the keyboard
one hex digit at a time, completely blind with no feedback of any kind
at all. It took 600 keypresses to enter it. Now that's REAL programming :-)