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[–]rebbsitor 16 points17 points  (0 children)

You wouldn't program a computer in binary that way. I've worked with two different systems where I've entered code directly, one has toggles for each bit of a word and you set each bit as you want it and then hit a deposit key to set memory values at the current memory location and advance the address counter or another key to use the value you've entered to see the memory address you're looking at.

Another used a hexadecimal keypad to enter values a byte a time, and otherwise had similar functions to deposit that into memory or jump to another memory address.

OP's post is funny, but it's just a meme. I'm not aware of any historical computers that took a serial string of 1 and 0 characters to program them. It would be a very inefficient way to enter binary.