I always found that far too painful, and almost impossible to spot bugs. And maybe I was just lucky that I was working part-time by then, but a fiver or so for

I always found that far too painful, and almost impossible to spot bugs. And maybe I was just lucky that I was working part-time by then, but a fiver or so for an assembler app didn't seem a huge expense even then. I would agree that getting microdrives did make a huge difference, but even when I was still on tape it was a hell of a lot easier for me to do that than keying in hex values.