[b_sharp]

"It's been even longer for me. We need to start some kind of support group.

Yup. I also need to get back into coding and forget this spyware junk.

"There will never be another assembler like Macro-11TM. I mean, anybody can get a computer with 256 megabytes of memory to do something.

I learned assembler on a PDP-11. No monitor, just a keyboard and a teletype. Those were the days.

[js1138]

Luxury. Punch cards are the only way to learn anything. Hand punched, that is.

[VadeRetro]

I learned assembler on a PDP-11. No monitor, just a keyboard and a teletype.

CPU cabinet the size of a large refrigerator. Disk drives the size of washing machines! A linker that cried and quit if your program was bigger than 64K.