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Question of the Day!	by kickstart	2001-02-09 00:01:04
Royal McBee	by navsup	2001-02-09 10:09:48
In 1966, I took a computer programming course at a small liberal arts college. They had a Royal McBee computer donated by a local business. The computer used vacuum tubes (12AX7s) for logic and had a rotating magnetic drum (1000 octal bytes) for memory. The i/o device was a Flexwriter (similar to a teletype) with a paper tape reader/puncher. The registers were displayed as traces on a oscilloscope mounted on the front panel. Programming was normally done in machine language, but an assembler was available that could be loaded from paper tape in about 15 minutes. The machine was IPLed by keying in the initial bootstrap program from the control panel. The course was a good introduction to what is really going on inside a computer.
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