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And also... C64 programs. They were manually typed in by 10 year old kids. The programs were printed in the computer magazines (early 80s) that dealt specifical
by 16s 13y ago
And also... C64 programs. They were manually typed in by 10 year old kids. The programs were printed in the computer magazines (early 80s) that dealt specifically with C64's. These programs were far more than 2560 characters (in some cases).
If young, interested kids can do it, I'd hope that a nation state could figure it out.
Link: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a5/ComputesGazetteProgramPage.jpg http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a5/ComputesGazett...
- Bill_Dimm 13y agoYep, I did that when I was a teenager -- entered the machine code for an entire word processor for the C64 called SpeedScript. The good old days ;-)
- csbrooks 13y agoAlthough to be fair, Compute! magazine at least had a checksum calculator to help you make sure you entered each line properly.
- bsenftner 13y agoYep, I remember doing that with an Apple II back in '79 to get a simple lunar lander game. The process took more than a day, with two friends to help double check the values as we copied everything over. When it ran, and worked, we thought we were gods!