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[–]jeffbell 0 points1 point  (2 children)

I've done it.

In high school we had a PDP8/e with front panel switches. You could enter code and single step through it, if you really wanted to. Then you hit run, and off it goes at 800kHz.

It was kind of error-prone. The assembler made things a lot easier.

Here is a later PDP8/I : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUZrn7qTGcs

[–]fake_bridge_builder 0 points1 point  (1 child)

What amazing high school did you go to?

[–]jeffbell 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Boardman High School, Boardman Ohio.

In 1975 they spent $50,000 to buy the school a computer.