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On 12/11/2013 9:07 PM, Larry Martell wrote:

> Nope. Long before that I was working on computers that didn't boot 
> when you powered them up, You had to manually key in a bootstrap 
> program from the front panel switches.
PDP8? RIM loader, BIN loader?