Yeah, I think that the 8-bit computers were the last ones that a single person could understand completely at every level. I can just about decipher modern asse

Yeah, I think that the 8-bit computers were the last ones that a single person could understand completely at every level. I can just about decipher modern assembly language to be able to compare outputs of godbolt when considering whether an optimization does what I think it does, but beyond that, I’ve not actually written any assembly code for over 30 years (the last I did was 370 Assembler on an IBM minicomputer). I remember reading computer magazines back in the 80s where they were discussing approaches to getting upper and lower case on the Apple ][. I had made the mistake of using the ctrl key which meant that return and backspace no longer worked and an article suggested using esc instead. The shift to the paddle button option wasn’t an option for me since I never owned my own computer and relied on being able to stay after school to use the school's computers to learn with.