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But this isn't any way to analyze a problem. This is just crap shoots. Don't you ever have to find out precisely what is happening? Most cases are causes by the software (or humans) trying to break one or more laws of physics. How in the hell do people learn what doesn't work when they design hardware if the only data they have is plugn'play?

This has got to be nonsense.

HUH? How do you overflow your ACs? Or am I thinking in words and not bytes? Even then, it still makes no sense.

That's why you use DDT.

The lights were convenient so that one could watch the whole operation of the whole system all at the same time. This include memory, CPU, all channels, all comm, all peripherals including all tapes, disks, and output-only devices such as line printers, plotters, card punches. Furthermore, most everything was noisy. Thus, in addition to watching them work, you could also hear the absence and-or presence of sound. If you were really good at "feeling" how a computer system worked, you could place your hands on quieter devices and feel them work. You also know that you're in deep poo if your feet begin to vibrate or your nose smelled something different.

No wonder you kids are bored. You've never had the pleasures of a full-body debugging session.

I never figured how to use taste. hmmm...no wonder we were

BAH