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I wrote my first program on an LGP30 not on punched cards but on punched tape in machine language in which numerical constants had to be 'input' in binary.
Can anyone beat that?

Not me.

I wrote BASIC programs on punched paper tape, and FORTRAN and Algol programs on punch cards.

Some years later, I did quite a bit of 6502 machine-language programming in hexadecimal on an Apple II+. (Editing the numerical machine-language instructions got tiresome, primarily because inserting an instruction often required adjusting nearby relative branches, so I wrote an assembler in BASIC for the Apple. It was slow, but it worked. Later on I got the very nice LISA assembler for the Apple -- does anybody else remember that one?)

I still know a lot of the numerical opcodes for the 6502. I don't imagine I'll ever need that information again :-).

I still know a lot of the numerical opcodes for the 6502. I don't imagine I'll ever need that information again :-).

Never say never.....

Has anyone in this thread written any HARDWARE drivers to be used on a WINDOWS machine??

I wrote BASIC programs on punched paper tape, and FORTRAN and Algol programs on punch cards.

One of the few people who remember Algol. One of the true pioneer languages whose structure lives on in C and Java. The recursive capabilities in Algol -- on second generation (i.e., pre-IC) computers -- made bill of materials drilldown program easy (or at least easier!).