I hand-assembled machine code for the 6502 for a couple of years in my youth. I was 12, couldn't afford an assembler, and my school wouldn't pay for one. I wa

I hand-assembled machine code for the 6502 for a couple of years in my youth. I was 12, couldn't afford an assembler, and my school wouldn't pay for one. I wasn't exactly writing VisiCalc, so a notebook and a pencil were plenty good enough.