This is going to be ridiculous, but I didn't know that DEBUG.EXE (or DEBUG.COM as I remember it?) could be used to assemble! (maybe my version couldn't, now tha

This is going to be ridiculous, but I didn't know that DEBUG.EXE (or DEBUG.COM as I remember it?) could be used to assemble! (maybe my version couldn't, now that I think of it). I found it when I was a 10 year old, and I could only use it to disassemble memory, and input hex values into memory. So I would write my program on paper, hand assemble it, and then enter the hex codes into debug.com. If it crashed, too bad, I would have to reenter it all over again. I did have a lot of time away from the computer (my parents only allowed one hour per day), so this was overall a pretty good workflow. I did learn a fair amount doing this.