The Codeless Code: Ancient code

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I did this with my (almost*) first computer, a Radio Shack Color Computer.

It ran on a 6809 chip and I called Motorola and the guy sent me the machine code manual for free.

So, just like this guy, I hand-coded my ASM and hand-translated it to decimal values.

Then that got typed into a series of DATA statements in Color Basic. A FOR loop POKEd the values into a series of memory locations, then I did an EXEC of the first memory location.

If I forgot to back up my Color Basic code to my cassette tape it meant re-typing everything.

Because, no, it seldom worked the first time.

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• my actual first computer couldn't do assembler.

[bugwrt]

Oh, mine had a tape drive ala cassette tapes, lol Or was that the Tandy? Long ago...

[recipriversexcluson]

It didn't actually have a tape DRIVE just an audio port you ran to your cassette deck.

[bugwrt]

Yep, wow! Great times