First Computers (was Re: [SunRescue] Yay, I don't feel...)

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tregare at rit.com writes:

>my first system was an altair 8800 kit, not bootrom at first, we had to 
>toggle the bootstrap in and then run it.  if you made a mistake it was 
>easier to clear ram and start over :) 

The cool trick for minis with core memory and no bootrom, was that
your shutdown procedure wrote the bootstrap program into some specific
memory location. Then you powered off, and when you started up again,
you just jumped to that location...

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