> "you wrote assembly code BY HAND ?" The first computer I was exposed to was an IBM Schools Computer. It had no assembler. It booted into what in retrospect I

> "you wrote assembly code BY HAND ?" The first computer I was exposed to was an IBM Schools Computer. It had no assembler. It booted into what in retrospect I suppose was a primitive memory debugger; you toggled machine code into the box as hex bytes.