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by rasz_pl 4227 days ago
>At the time that the 6502 hit the computer scene in a mass->market way it wasn't like you coded your code straight into >a computer. Instead you actually wrote code out on paper. >Then you looked up the opcodes and typed them into a >margin. That was what you typed in on many personal >computers of the time.

That still sounds easy, real men input code with switches, into 6809 in this example : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXu8P2qGoj8