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.
That was great, thanks for sharing:)
Nah. They punched cards.
(Too bad shittywatercolors is not on lemmy)
The binary says ‘Meme’
Yeah, with USB and chips. Sounds about right.
Finally, a keyboard to program brainfuck
Technically morse code is just on/off on/off lol
This picture is basically true. The old punch cards …
Binary is just morse in Mashine readable Form.
Come on, we at least used hex digits.
https://archive.org/details/your-sinclair-61/page/n27/mode/2up