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Article #679Re: Blinking lights ...
From: Paul Campbell
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 1990 16:45
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 1990 16:45
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In article <10...@ucsd.Edu> br...@ucsd.edu (Brian Kantor) writes: >The nicest set of CPU lights I've seen were on the old Burroughs B6700; >The killer was that most of those lights were also pushbuttons and >pushing them set the bit in the associated register. This could be We had someone who would play Russian Roulette - you would halt the machine, change a bit in a top of stack (A) register [tags didn't count] and see what crashed .... not really a good idea Paul -- Paul Campbell UUCP: ..!mtxinu!taniwha!paul AppleLink: CAMPBELL.P "Why is it that the US can invade Panama but not the Vatican Embassy?" "1995 - The leader of the free-world? That would be Gorbachev ..."
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!tank!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!usc!ucsd!ucbvax!mtxinu!taniwha!paul From: paul@taniwha.UUCP (Paul Campbell) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Blinking lights ... Message-ID: <446@taniwha.UUCP> Date: 3 Jan 90 16:45:16 GMT References: <9385@asylum.SF.CA.US> <10752@ucsd.Edu> Reply-To: paul@taniwha.UUCP (Paul Campbell) Distribution: alt Organization: Taniwha Systems Design, Oakland Lines: 17 Posted: Wed Jan 3 17:45:16 1990 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit