Greybeards (Re: Netbooks & BSD)

RW rwmaillists at googlemail.com
Thu Oct 21 12:38:51 UTC 2010


On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 21:10:28 +0100
Arthur Chance <freebsd at qeng-ho.org> wrote:


> 50s) had the experience of programming microcode on a machine by
> inserting brass slugs for 0s and ferrite slugs for 1s on a pin board.

I wonder why it was brass/ferrite rather than brass/empty or
ferrite/empty.


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