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Comment by pjmlp | original | How did Woz write the Apple 1 BASIC before building the computer?
[−]pjmlp · 2026-11-15 Sun 08:04 UTC · link
And then manually translate all those opcodes into values that code be entered as DATA into a BASIC, with a tiny loader segmnent and RANDOMIZE USR to jump into executing it.

Kids these days don't know how good they have it, even when playing around with an ESP32.