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Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 16:18:22 -0500
Subject: Re: Experiences/guidance on teaching Python as a first programming language
From: Larry Martell <larry.martell@gmail.com>
To: bob gailer <bgailer@gmail.com>
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On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 11:51 AM, bob gailer <bgailer@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?

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