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Subject: Re: [OFF-TOPIC] It is true that is impossible write in binary code, the lowest level of programming that you can write is in hex code?
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On Wed, 5 Nov 2014 15:38:09 +0000 (UTC), Denis McMahon
<denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> declaimed the following:

>On Tue, 04 Nov 2014 21:30:06 -0500, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
>
>> 	If you have an old system with front-panel toggle switches, you 
>set the
>> switches for binary values, and then push the "enter" switch.
>
>You've booted a PDP-8 then ;)

	No... I was actually visualizing an Altair or IMSAI (though I've never
touched them either).
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