Are you really so good?

bernardgreen said:
Hand punching a repair patch working from jig saw of torn tape. And getting the perforated "sellotape" to line up with the holes.

And PDP11 and PDP8 with the row of 24 (?) switches to hand input a few lines of code that made the paper tape reader work. Then one could load the short bootstrap program on paper tape that enabled the machine to read a "real" program from the paper tape and store it in memory.

And it was still faster than a Windows PC booting up......

And the chad from the paper tape puncher made wonderful confetti.
There was something pleasing about feeding the tape into place, lining up the holes with the pins and finally closing the flap, then watching the reader chugging away, ah the bygone days, not the same hearing a hard drive whizzing somehow. :(
 
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