From: eachus@spectre.mitre.org (Robert I. Eachus)
Subject: Re: Student views on Ada
Date: 23 Sep 94 10:08:58
Date: 1994-09-23T10:08:58+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <EACHUS.94Sep23100858@spectre.mitre.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dewar@cs.nyu.edu's message of 22 Sep 1994 10:17:16 -0400
Several early machines had no "blinkenlights." For example the
Litton/General Precision LGP-30 and the Royal McBee RPG4000 both had
oscilloscopes to let you see the register contents as they flew by on
the drum.
But of course Real Computer Operators did it all by ear on the
Univac I. There was a speaker, usually attached to the sign bit of
the accumulator, which allowed you to debug your program by listening
to it run. (The same technique was used to play music on the PDP-1 in
Bldg 16 at MIT, but that was just for fun. The 'Dip had blining
lights for debugging, and the original ddt.)
--
Robert I. Eachus
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1994-09-22 14:17 ` Student views on Ada Robert Dewar
1994-09-23 10:08 ` Robert I. Eachus [this message]
1994-09-23 13:15 ` Norman H. Cohen
1994-09-23 15:13 ` David Weller
1994-09-23 15:56 CONDIC
1994-09-24 0:52 ` Bob Kitzberger
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1994-09-07 14:01 Prof_Weber-Wulff
1994-09-17 11:46 ` Fred McCall
1994-09-19 15:29 ` Norman H. Cohen
1994-09-22 15:32 ` Laurent Gasser
1994-09-24 19:04 ` Fred McCall
1994-09-25 17:13 ` Michael Feldman
1994-10-04 11:48 ` Fred McCall
1994-10-05 16:17 ` Norman H. Cohen
1994-09-21 7:52 ` Prof Weber-Wulff
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