stackyFACTSIf you bought a consumer PC in the mid-1970s, you were basically just buying a box of blinking lights. Machines like the Altair 8800 had no monitor or keyboard; you programmed them by physically flipping tiny metal toggle switches and reading the output via LED flashes.
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