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		ok123456 on Aug 23, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Hacker Purity Test (1989) They mean like toggling the switches on the front of a PDP/8 to make it do something other than be a paperweight.

vincent-manis on Aug 23, 2024 [–]

There was a time when I could toggle the PDP-8 RIM bootstrap loader by heart (my programs had a nasty habit of destroying the memory-resident copy by accident).

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