On Sat, 20 Dec 2008 10:01:58 -0800, Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:

>Jim Holsenback wrote:
>> Had an HP1000 that used paper tape if the boot sector on the hard drive 
>> became corrupted.
>
>Or the NCR Century-100 that you used the front panel switches to read the 
>punched card into memory and then jumped to it in order to boot the machine.

The Honeywell 416/316 would either read from tape or cards depending on the
settings you imputer to the switch register. Then would read a loader tape then
the boot tape then the program. I was a wiz at using octal :)
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Regards
     Stephen

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