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pascalmahe
on April 29, 2020
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Software Folklore – A collection of weird bug stor...
Always impressed by Mel's story.
krallja
on April 30, 2020
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That describes a real machine, the LGP-30, which really had absolutely no business being as powerful for the price and era as it was. It used an oscilloscope for its (tiny) debug display: the operator’d read the voltage waveform directly as binary.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGP-30
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