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It was even worse, they manually flipped toggle switches to write the program
For anyone interested. Here’s a video of programming an EEPROM with dip switches and using it to drive a seven segment display.
The guy’s channel also includes how to build a very simple computer using various ICs. If breadboard computers are your kind of thing.
Love Ben Eater and his projects. Helped me understand lots about how a computer functions under the hood with his 8bit computer project.
That was great, thanks for sharing:)
Even worse, they connected cables.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plugboard
Yeah they looked like old timey telephone operators and the people who did it were called computers
And there was no space or enter.
I bet most people reading your comment will think it's a joke. 😩 And thanks for bringing back up those nightmares.