Osborne-1 was before the internet. So if you were not in some Merican university or corporation you were very much on your own. I made chess, emacs, lisp, pasca

Osborne-1 was before the internet. So if you were not in some Merican university or corporation you were very much on your own. I made chess, emacs, lisp, pascal just like that, with assembler. -- I probably made the assembler too, because I was using VAX assembler with Z80-macros at first. Aniways I was incredibly good with assembly and machine code. I remembered all the hex-codes and could read and write long programs with numbers alone. In the alternate "Difference Engine"-future this skill would have been eternal and appreciated as genius-level.