cctalk Digest, Vol 54, Issue 62

[Sridhar Ayengar]

John Floren wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 10:39 AM, Mike Loewen
> <mloewen at cpumagic.scol.pa.us> wrote:
>> On Thu, 28 Feb 2008, Geoffrey Bunza wrote:
>>
>>  > On the note of the CDC 6600 machines, et al., There was a peripheral
>>  > processor which was used to boot the mainframe, and it had many rows of
>>  > toggle switches, in groups of 18 or 36 if I remember right, which either
>>  > contained the boot code or controlled the boot. The peripheral processor
>>  > was a computer in its own right by any standards.
>>
>>     Here's a picture of the Dead Start Program panel:
>>
>>  http://sturgeon.css.psu.edu/~mloewen/CDC6600-7.jpg
>>
>>
> 
> It's... beautiful!

You, sir, have a gift for understatement.

Peace...  Sridhar