The Altair 8800 was fun. The switches are for the data address and the machine code instruction. You'd toggle in the address and the machine code and then toggle a write switch to write the instruction to memory. You'd do that for each machine code instruction to write the entire program and then run it. You could save a program out to a gigantic 8" floppy disk. There was a point that I could write entire programs in machine code. Assembly language was for sissy's!
"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." Sir Isaac Newton, 1675
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