ISTR that MPLAB 4 came on 6 floppy disks.
Just downloaded MPLAB X.
Which was 367Mb or so.
Without any tool chain.
The toolchain just added another 64Mb.
It's all getting too much for a poor old lizard to cope with.
The idiot's guide is a mere 220 pages long.
I think it's time I retired.
Aye.
The youf of today don't know nuffin about toggling in card reader bootstraps.
Only 16 instructions but it generally took at least 20 minutes to get the fecker right.
Then again, I think we had it easy compared with:
http://www.vintage-computer.com/vcfo...hp/t-9441.html
And then again, on youtube:
Mmmmmm.
ASR33.
Mmmmmmm.
A. N. Other paper tape reader.
After all that downloading, it turns out that MPLAB X is based on open software, net beans & all thattulipestuff.
Which means that the project we attempted to run died ingloriously with an incomprehensible error message.
And then I went on to kill his PICKIT 3 dongle thingie with MPLAB 8.
Ho hum.
Never mind, here's a nice picture of a card reader.
And the corresponding piece of extremely noisy hardware: the card punch.
Doesn't work any more, try this:
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/computing...nivac1710.html
I'm sure it easily exceeded 90dB in the small room it inhabited.
I remember that thing.
ISTR that we used it to program up FET testers.
One of the funnier things was watching someone attempting to edit a binary image on a card & get the checksum right using one of those.
I'm not sure he succeeded, but it took a lot of cards before he gave up.
Just downloaded MPLAB X.
Which was 367Mb or so.
Without any tool chain.
The toolchain just added another 64Mb.
It's all getting too much for a poor old lizard to cope with.
The idiot's guide is a mere 220 pages long.
I think it's time I retired.
Aye.
The youf of today don't know nuffin about toggling in card reader bootstraps.
Only 16 instructions but it generally took at least 20 minutes to get the fecker right.
Then again, I think we had it easy compared with:
http://www.vintage-computer.com/vcfo...hp/t-9441.html
And then again, on youtube:
Mmmmmm.
ASR33.
Mmmmmmm.
A. N. Other paper tape reader.
After all that downloading, it turns out that MPLAB X is based on open software, net beans & all that
Which means that the project we attempted to run died ingloriously with an incomprehensible error message.
And then I went on to kill his PICKIT 3 dongle thingie with MPLAB 8.
Ho hum.
Never mind, here's a nice picture of a card reader.
And the corresponding piece of extremely noisy hardware: the card punch.
Doesn't work any more, try this:
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/computing...nivac1710.html
I'm sure it easily exceeded 90dB in the small room it inhabited.
Originally posted by darmstadt
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ISTR that we used it to program up FET testers.
One of the funnier things was watching someone attempting to edit a binary image on a card & get the checksum right using one of those.
I'm not sure he succeeded, but it took a lot of cards before he gave up.
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