6502 machine language of the Apple II+ really helped get a mental picture of how computers work. Call -151 at the prompt then you’re in. A manual listed what most ROM addresses did: move the audio speaker cone once by reading or writing anything to C030 (I think, or was it C080?), of course, 30 C0 syntax. 85 store the accumulator? Geez, it’s been a long time. 1 MGhz 8-bit CPU, X and Y registers, an accumulator, only adding and subtracting commands except for shifting bytes left and right. No audio routines.
It was all very inefficient but what a way to learn!
It was probably like the 1930s and 1940s with radio: people really knew how it worked at the nitty gritty level and could friggn make an impromptu radio out of debris from a crashed army jeep (probably on youtube now).
That’s civilization: layer upon layer upon layer of knowledge and advancements until we all roast the planet from our greed, driven by the 4% (the sociopaths).
It was all very inefficient but what a way to learn!
It was probably like the 1930s and 1940s with radio: people really knew how it worked at the nitty gritty level and could friggn make an impromptu radio out of debris from a crashed army jeep (probably on youtube now).
That’s civilization: layer upon layer upon layer of knowledge and advancements until we all roast the planet from our greed, driven by the 4% (the sociopaths).