for old timers... (hint, Microdata)

<interrupt>
<clock>
<reset>
<load>
?

Question: NEXT in sequence is???

"dzigray" <google (AT) bridge2 (DOT) com> wrote

Hey David.

It's been about 24 years, but I believe the next step is <interrupt>. When
the system would hang, we first did an <interrupt>, <reset>, <interrupt>
(commonly referred to as I R I). If that did not clear it, the second resort
was the focus of your trivia question.

Jeff

I remember Clock, reset, load and run.



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"Jeffrey Kaufman" <jkaufman (AT) keydata (DOT) us> wrote

Here's an easy one. Identify the hardware that used this button press
sequence to reset the machine.

Step
Clear
Load
Ready
Execute

Hi Dave
Now you are stretching the toggle memories. I shall never forget their use
though I have definitely forgotten the sequence. I well remember my first
day on a training course with Basil at AWA Melbourne - Winter, extra heaters
scattered around Norwich house, bang the fuse blew, I got up and was putting
on my coat to go home - NCR's that I was used to took a day or two to come
up - an engineer bounced in laughing, toggled a couple of switches and up we
came. Not a character lost from the edit I was doing, it may have only been
Reality 2.4d but I was in love.
Peter McMurray

"dzigray" <google (AT) bridge2 (DOT) com> wrote

Honeywell Ultimate.

"Tracy Raines" <liveblues (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote

The Database Scientifics museum project has two of the circa 1975 core
based Micodata's . One of these days, when w get them up and running,
I will confirm that Dave's challange is still applcabale.

Henry Keultjes

Peter McMurray wrote:

Yup, but didn't we need to hit Execute twice? Or am I thinking about
a PDP-11? LOL

"Tom Phillips" wrote:

jeff,
i thought i had 10 years on you! okay... you're it! come up with pick
trivia #2...

OK, Pick Trivia #2,

True or False:

There used to be a trick for joining two lines in the editor on old Microdata systems. It involved going to a line and pressing <break> and then at !
typing cr4;1

(Film at 11)



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"dzigray" <google (AT) bridge2 (DOT) com> wrote