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Comment by tonyedgecombe | original | How did Woz write the Apple 1 BASIC before building the computer?
[−]tonyedgecombe · 2026-11-15 Sun 09:43 UTC · link
We did that at school. We would hand write Fortran code on sheets and send it off somewhere. A week to two later we would get the results back. I seem to remember most of the mistakes were when the operator entered the code.