By way of example:

I had a machine back in the day that my dad and I wire-wrapped together.  On
the front panel were 17 switches:

8 of them were toggles for the address
8 of them were toggles for the data to go in that one address
1 of them was a momentary switch that put the data in the byte of memory.

We hand-entered about a page and a half of boot loader, and the boot loader
was code to read some other stuff from paper tape.  We'd originally
hand-entered all of the stuff on the paper tape, of course, and the code to
write that stuff out to the paper tape machine.

-glenn

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dlegion [mailto:dlegion@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2001 4:03 PM
> To: kclug@kclug.org
> Subject: Qbasic ?
>
>
> I'm taking a home course on QBASIC, and as I was reading along I
> suddenly was
> dumb struck.  When the first program to ever be writen was
> writen, How did
> they check it or code it to make sure it would work and since it
> would have
> been the first program EVER! how did they wirte it?
>
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