It was even worse, they manually flipped toggle switches to write the program
87For anyone interested. Here’s a video of programming an EEPROM with dip switches and using it to drive a seven segment display.
The guy’s channel also includes how to build a very simple computer using various ICs. If breadboard computers are your kind of thing.
39Love Ben Eater and his projects. Helped me understand lots about how a computer functions under the hood with his 8bit computer project.
8That was great, thanks for sharing:)
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Even worse, they connected cables.
16Yeah they looked like old timey telephone operators and the people who did it were called computers
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And there was no space or enter.
10I bet most people reading your comment will think it's a joke. 😩 And thanks for bringing back up those nightmares.
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The binary says 'Meme'
39Nah. They punched cards.
(Too bad shittywatercolors is not on lemmy)
26Yeah, with USB and chips. Sounds about right.
19This picture is basically true. The old punch cards ...
11Binary is just morse in Mashine readable Form.
11I was gonna say “like, kind of” because of Morse code.
Ya beat me to it bro
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Not really, Morse code is not binary, but tertiary.
3Unless I'm mistaken I would say that it's the other way around, Morse code is more like a human readable machine language expressed in binary because the 26 character alphabet is expressed in different binary values, much like ASCII.
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Finally, a keyboard to program brainfuck
11Come on, we at least used hex digits.
https://archive.org/details/your-sinclair-61/page/n27/mode/2up
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21Need this
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What's "space!" and "enter"?
For those that need help in deciphering the title text, there is a super easy trick: Take the last 5 bits of each byte, convert them from binary to decimal, and that letter of the alphabet (starting from one) is the letter represented by the ASCII code.
To convert binary numbers to decimal, just add the place values of a the 1s together. For 5 bits, the place values are 16, 8, 4, 2, 1. So 10110 becomes 16+4+2 which is equal to 22.
01001101: last 5 bits are 01101, in decimal, that is 8+4+1=13, and the 13th letter of the alphabet is "m"
01100101, becomes 00101, then 4+1=5, and the 5th letter of the alphabet is 'e'
The last 2 are just repeats of those, so the post body reads "meme" (if the third bit is zero, the letter is capital, so it should really be "Meme")
5Technically morse code is just on/off on/off lol
3This is a weird meme to me. Have you ever made something like a simple accumulator machine out of logic gates, OP? You literally just program them in binary, although usually the instructions are expressed in hexadecimal. You make your own instruction set. When we did ours in Compsci foundations I just decided that 0x06 was going to be my jump at negative instruction. I could have wired the logic so that instruction was at a different value, it's literally possible to make your own instruction set, then your own assembly language, and then your own compiler, and your own programming language. People, mostly women at first, did this for every new computer their institution built at first.
3Having a space character makes it ternary. If enter is a character than quaternary
3This is what I imagined programators did when i was a kid
2Plankalkül from 1942
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