Re: A contest...with a prize!

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At 10:00 AM 6/3/98 -0500, you wrote:

>I spent so many hours in 1978 programming a CDP1802
>machine on a Hexadecimal
>keypad and only LED for display (not even and hex display just >binary code)

>Jacques Deschenes

For those who don't know, the 1802 (RCA product) was a computer
you could build with a soldering iron, some wire, and about $25

On the other hand, it was one of the few modern computers that
you could easily out-compute with a pencil and paper...that was
also the way you assembled programs for the thing. You generally
had to make your program and data fit into 256 bytes.
People learned a lot about programming, working under those
constraints.

Regards,

Irv

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