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Bootloading With Binary Switches

Field Computer Science
Went Obsolete 1989
Made Obsolete By More modern computers
Knowledge Assumed basic computer and technicalskills
When useful Many of these systems still in use

Texas Instruments TI-980B:

  • Enter address 0000-0000-0000-1111 on the toggle switches
  • Activate the front panel switches in this order
    • Halt
    • Reset
    • PC
    • Run
    • Load
    • Reset
    • IPL
  • When the 8” floppy drive light comes on:
    • Start

Sperry-Univax V-77

On the front panel, press the buttons in this order:

  • Stop/Run
  • Reset
  • Reg
  • Clear
  • Display Clear
  • Enter address “10” (Octal)
  • Stop/Start (LED should be flashing)
  • Start
 
skills/bootloadingwithbinaryswitches.txt · Last modified: 2009/01/13 11:33 (external edit)
 
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