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[Bill_Dimm]

Yep, I did that when I was a teenager -- entered the machine code for an entire word processor for the C64 called SpeedScript. The good old days ;-)

[bsenftner → Bill_Dimm]

Yep, I remember doing that with an Apple II back in '79 to get a simple lunar lander game. The process took more than a day, with two friends to help double check the values as we copied everything over. When it ran, and worked, we thought we were gods!

[csbrooks → Bill_Dimm]

Although to be fair, Compute! magazine at least had a checksum calculator to help you make sure you entered each line properly.