Prediction: Next Firmware Release Update for Taycan: Week of November 9, 2020

[porsche_coyote]

Breadboard? Just use the supplied jumper wires to implement the logic per the 3600-page manual of wiring diagrams.

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[daveo4EV]

@porsche_coyote wins

 

[porsche_coyote]

@porsche_coyote wins

I forgot to mention that they'll fax you the manual, if you request it electronically.

 

[Mwa3aan]

Punched Cards.
Paper Tape if you subscribe to the AtHomeUpdate FoD.
...or was it Cassette Tapes?

A show of hands for anyone who actually loaded software into a computer via any or all of those methods... Anyone? Anyone other than me?!? And, no, doing it as part of a Civil War Re-enactments doesn’t count.

I saw my dad do punch cards. I started using computers just as tapes gave way to floppy.

 

[louv]

My birth announcement was on punched cards. Dad was a nerd too. He was working at Bell Labs at the time. I can only imagine the confusion as family and friends opened the mail to find a blue, 80-column punched card with a bunch of weird square holes in it.

I had no choice, really. It’s was a nerd’s life for me. Destiny.

[photo of a photo of the actual punched card removed]

 

[evanevery]

Punched Cards.
Paper Tape if you subscribe to the AtHomeUpdate FoD.
...or was it Cassette Tapes?

A show of hands for anyone who actually loaded software into a computer via any or all of those methods... Anyone? Anyone other than me?!? And, no, doing it as part of a Civil War Re-enactments doesn’t count.

[Hand Up]

Remember the Altair 8080? 1976 or thereabouts... You had to load the bootstrap program BY HAND (which then enabled it to load the O/S via a tape reader in an LA120 Line Printer). There was no such thing as BIOS or ROM back then. You had to actually set 8 dip switches and hit LOAD over and over (to pull each of the 8 bits in through the accumulator) just so you could make it smart enough to load the O/S via a paper tape. You never wanted to shut that baby down...

So, Yeah!

Punch cards came much later for me. They were a luxury. (PDP 11/80).

"One's and Zero's? Hah kid, you had it good... We had to use the letter 'l'!" (That's an "el" for those who don't get the joke) ;-)

 

[louv]

[Hand Up]

Remember the Altair 8080? 1976 I think... You had to load the bootstrap program BY HAND (which enabled it to then load the O/S via a tape reader in an LA120 Line Printer). There was no such thing as BIOS or ROM back then. You had to actually set 8 dip switches and hit LOAD over and over (to pull each of the 8 bits in through the accumulator) just so you could make it smart enough to load the O/S.

So, Yeah!

Punch cards came much later for me. They were a luxury. (PDP 11/80)

Yup. Programmed one of those in my first college CS class. Years after using punched cards.

 

[evanevery]

Yup. Programmed one of those in my first college CS class. Years after using punched cards.

The Altair or the PDP?

 

[Kingske]

This conversation gets a slightly geriatric ring to it. Hopefully we will live long enough to get to the next firmware update...

 

[evanevery]

This conversation gets a slightly geriatric ring to it. Hopefully we will live long enough to get to the next firmware update...

Quiet Sonny, we are reminiscing... ..and nap time's never far away...

 

[evanevery]

My birth announcement was on punched cards. Dad was a nerd too. He was working at Bell Labs at the time. I can only imagine the confusion as family and friends opened the mail to find a blue, 80-column punched card with a bunch of weird square holes in it.

I had no choice, really. It’s was a nerd’s life for me. Destiny.

Careful... So much personal info there... (Gotcha by 4 years)

 

[louv]

Careful... So much personal info there... (Gotcha by 4 years)

Yes. A birthdate. A full name. Ok. Someone will steal my identity. Grrr. I was going to edit out the date... but then I’d have to blur the holes!

 

[louv]

The Altair or the PDP?

Oh... crap. Yeah. Maybe it was a PDP. MEH. Too long ago! AND GIT OFF MAH LAWN!!!

 

[JC Mann]

Punched Cards.
Paper Tape if you subscribe to the AtHomeUpdate FoD.
...or was it Cassette Tapes?

A show of hands for anyone who actually loaded software into a computer via any or all of those methods... Anyone? Anyone other than me?!? And, no, doing it as part of a Civil War Re-enactments doesn’t count.

I learned programming on punched cards !

 

[Genau]

Punched Cards.
Paper Tape if you subscribe to the AtHomeUpdate FoD.
...or was it Cassette Tapes?

A show of hands for anyone who actually loaded software into a computer via any or all of those methods... Anyone? Anyone other than me?!? And, no, doing it as part of a Civil War Re-enactments doesn’t count.

Punch cards I WISH. Until the mid-1990's, we had to manually type in Minuteman III ICBM target updates stored on a 128 pound magnetic drum with 1 MB total storage capacity. Don't ask about checksums. We were blessed to have paper tape for crypto loads. That said, that EMP hardened, nuclear-certified weapon system was infinitely more stable and debugged than the Taycan.

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