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Comment by WesolyKubeczek | original | How did Woz write the Apple 1 BASIC before building the computer?
[−]WesolyKubeczek · 2026-11-15 Sun 13:09 UTC · link
> for the first couple years of my programming life, floppy disks were beyond my means, so any code I wrote lived in its official version as hand-written code and would have to be retyped any time I wanted it.

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