This brings back a lot of memories ... Hand-compiling code for a COSMAC ELF (http://www.cosmacelf.com/docs.htm http://www.cosmacelf.com/docs.htm) and punching i

This brings back a lot of memories ... Hand-compiling code for a COSMAC ELF (http://www.cosmacelf.com/docs.htm http://www.cosmacelf.com/docs.htm) and punching it into memory on a hex keyboard (the original had a switch for each bit and 4 push-buttons for load, run, etc). By the time I was coding for 6502 and 8088 processors (still in assembly language - I was after all an embedded engineer), I had assemblers and an 80-column by 43-line text editor. Aren't we spoiled today? I wouldn't want to go back, but I've also found that the low-level experience with machine code is something many "newer engineers" are missing ... it's an appreciation of the hardware that you can't get any other way.