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My mind is blown that they used punch cards to write Apple II software in the early days.

• pvg 11y ago
  Only very, very early system bootstrapping stuff. Beyond that, most software was written on the machines themselves. Like this guy, who is also on HN http://www.atariarchives.org/deli/cottage_computer_programming.php http://www.atariarchives.org/deli/cottage_computer_programmi...
  • foobarge 11y ago
    Thank you for that reference. Paul Lutus is a childhood hero.
    • cturner 11y ago
      He wrote a cool book about sailing, also. I read it in q3 last year, then quit my job and did an atlantic crossing in november. I am now cottage programming.
• spilk 11y ago
  Woz is fairly well known to have hand-assembled (on paper) the ROM monitor for the Apple II, which he then used to code Integer BASIC.