> I had a Commodore 64 in the early 90s and I wanted to understand more about machine code. The problem was that you were too late. Machines like the C64, the

> I had a Commodore 64 in the early 90s and I wanted to understand more about machine code. The problem was that you were too late. Machines like the C64, the TRS-80 Model I, the CoCo, etc. all had specialist magazines dedicated to them ... back in the early to mid 80s. These were really good for distributing knowledge. Unfortunately, the ascendancy of the IBM PC by the early 1990s wiped this stuff out. And most libraries got rid of those periodicals if they had even carried them at that point.