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[-] AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml 87 points 1 year ago

It was even worse, they manually flipped toggle switches to write the program

[-] IHeartBadCode@kbin.social 39 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] gvasco@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 year ago

Love Ben Eater and his projects. Helped me understand lots about how a computer functions under the hood with his 8bit computer project.

[-] Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

That was great, thanks for sharing:)

[-] akash_rawal@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago
[-] Hikermick@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah they looked like old timey telephone operators and the people who did it were called computers

[-] tias@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 1 year ago

And there was no space or enter.

[-] Carighan@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

I bet most people reading your comment will think it's a joke. 😩 And thanks for bringing back up those nightmares.

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