It was even worse, they manually flipped toggle switches to write the program
For anyone interested. Here’s a video of programming an EEPROM with dip switches and using it to drive a seven segment display.
The guy’s channel also includes how to build a very simple computer using various ICs. If breadboard computers are your kind of thing.
That was great, thanks for sharing:)
Even worse, they connected cables.
Yeah they looked like old timey telephone operators and the people who did it were called computers
I bet most people reading your comment will think it’s a joke. 😩 And thanks for bringing back up those nightmares.
The binary says ‘Meme’
Yeah, with USB and chips. Sounds about right.
Binary is just morse in Mashine readable Form.
I was gonna say “like, kind of” because of Morse code.
Ya beat me to it bro
Not really, Morse code is not binary, but tertiary.
I’m guessing you’re saying that because of the pauses? Otherwise I don’t get it.
Yes, the space is a necessary symbol in Morse code, otherwise it’s impossible to decode.
Makes sense. I remember asking myself whether Morse was a form of Huffman encoding back when I was learning that stuff. And it kinda is going for that, but without actually doing it properly since it wasn’t a binary code per se and so could use the pauses. “Ternary” makes sense.
Right, Morse was actually mentioned as an example when I was learning Huffman encoding. :)
Unless I’m mistaken I would say that it’s the other way around, Morse code is more like a human readable machine language expressed in binary because the 26 character alphabet is expressed in different binary values, much like ASCII.
This picture is basically true. The old punch cards …
Finally, a keyboard to program brainfuck
This is a weird meme to me. Have you ever made something like a simple accumulator machine out of logic gates, OP? You literally just program them in binary, although usually the instructions are expressed in hexadecimal. You make your own instruction set. When we did ours in Compsci foundations I just decided that 0x06 was going to be my jump at negative instruction. I could have wired the logic so that instruction was at a different value, it’s literally possible to make your own instruction set, then your own assembly language, and then your own compiler, and your own programming language. People, mostly women at first, did this for every new computer their institution built at first.
Having a space character makes it ternary. If enter is a character than quaternary
Nah. They punched cards.
(Too bad shittywatercolors is not on lemmy)
Technically morse code is just on/off on/off lol
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