Much better for me because I had a cassete tape drive where I could save my programs. It had a counter. I kept a piece of paper with the counter numbers so I co

Much better for me because I had a cassete tape drive where I could save my programs. It had a counter. I kept a piece of paper with the counter numbers so I could fast forward/rewind to get to specific programs I'd saved on tape. I made games on it. When BASIC wasn't fast enough for what I wanted to do I looked into Assembly. I sent snail mail to Motorola asking where I could buy the 6809E assembler manual, and they sent me one for free.