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richardwhiuk a day ago

Paul Allen entered it in front of the customer for the first run

https://paulallen.com/Futurist/Microsoft.aspx

I expect it was distributed on tape as well.

schlauerfox a day ago | parent [-]

"he’d forgotten to write the bootstrap loader" He didn't load the whole program from the switches on the face, just the bootstrap that would let them feed the paper tape through the teletype/paper tape reader that was common at the time. It would take a very very long time to load the whole program by hand. See this video of a demo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxU_3dEJ2nM

drcode 21 hours ago | parent [-]

damn, that's a crazy process- thanks for the video link