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Comment by pascalmahe

5 years ago

Always impressed by Mel's story.

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krallja  5 years ago

That describes a real machine, the LGP-30, which really had absolutely no business being as powerful for the price and era as it was. It used an oscilloscope for its (tiny) debug display: the operator’d read the voltage waveform directly as binary.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGP-30

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