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Re:The MOS 6502 and the Best Layout Guy in the World by HeyLaughingBoy on Monday January 03, 2011 @05:32PM (#2064962)
Punch cards are different: there's substantially delayed gratification.

When you're a poor college student as I was, entering opcodes in a monitor/debugger you wrote in BASIC because you couldn't afford an assembler, then yes, assembly was fun.

Fun, that is, until you had to hand-calculate negative jump offsets. Don't remember why, but for some reason I seem to think that the MC6809 I was running on made it difficult to do so.

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Re:The MOS 6502 and the Best Layout Guy in the World by ghshephard on Tuesday January 04, 2011 @02:45AM (#2066247)
There must have been something special about the 6809 - I recall doing my Digital Design course on that Chip. And yes, we didn't have an assembler, everything was entered via opcodes either. It was a very enjoyable experience for someone like me who wasn't a gear head, and got to play around with SB555s, NAND Gates, and lots, and lots of wirewrapping.
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