Reading all the positive recollections of the 6502 (esp. from people who've programmed other controllers) makes me feel nostalgic. It brings back happy memories

Reading all the positive recollections of the 6502 (esp. from people who've programmed other controllers) makes me feel nostalgic. It brings back happy memories of programming (with a paper and pencil -- I had no concept of an editor, or even assembly language) my C=64 -- I had a book of opcodes, and would scan up and down the list to find what I thought I wanted, then write it all out in a notebook. Then I would collect this code, and POKE it into place in the C=64 memory, and voila! Magic! The C=64 was so malleable. I would "hack the kernel"("OS Wedge" is what I knew it as) by resetting an interrupt vector for some function (ie: keyboard interrupt) to the address of my new code, and at the end of my code, call to the ROM for the original code. This way, I could get the screen to change colours every time I pressed a key. It was one of my first introductions to computing, and probably exactly what I needed.