Woz also coded the first Apple I in binary as he had no assembler. Of course the 6502 was a beautifully simple design with a minimal set of opcodes. Mel's stor

Woz also coded the first Apple I in binary as he had no assembler. Of course the 6502 was a beautifully simple design with a minimal set of opcodes. Mel's story is nuts but from the perspective of today (or even when I started in 1981) but you have to start somewhere and you can't judge what people did in the early days except in the context of the times.