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From: Walter Bushell
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2018 21:21

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Gareth's Downstairs Computer <headstone255.but.n...@yahoo.com> wrote:
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>Yes, it did work and sold well. Upgrading though was such a pain that
>they recoded in assembler *WITHOUT ANY COMMENTS* because, based on their
>experience with hexadecimal machine code, assembler was "self documenting"!

Such was also said about early Fortran. By comparison, their was something
to be said. However more complex programs were attempted for the ability
of the programmers. Zo . . .

>Live and learn!

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From: Walter Bushell <pr...@panix.com>
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Subject: Re: Nostalgia
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2018 21:21:16 +0000 (UTC)
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