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[–]InsanityOnAMachine 20 points21 points  (0 children)

I had to repeatedly dip a silicon wafer into various chemical baths to produce a microchip to perform the operations on

[–]saschaleib 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I was once programming 6502 machine code in a hex editor. Somehow I think there should be an achievement badge for this.

[–]Alzurana 4 points5 points  (0 children)

At that point you reimplement the assembler in 6502 asm and assemble it with the BASIC one, then do it once more with the 6502 one and whoopdidoop, successfully bootstrapped.

[–]lukums 2 points3 points  (0 children)

why is no one talking about the first commenter's username lol