Blinkenlights

From: Hans B Pufal <hansp_at_digiweb.com>
Date: Sat Feb 13 10:34:37 1999

Doug wrote:

> I'm really looking for when lights were first used for output and switches
> used for input, similar to the way a bunch of the mini front panels
> worked. (It may be that Simon was the first -- I dunno.)

Well the Manchester baby machine had only switches for input in 1948.
Output was by CRT display of the memory contents which might be thought
of as lights.

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