retrocomputing

4122 readers

1 users here now

Discussions on vintage and retrocomputing

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

116

The 6502 CPU Powered a Whole Generation! | The 8bit Guy (www.youtube.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

13 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Same here! Still have my copy of 6502 software design that I used until it fell apart.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Sometimes I wish I'd had one and some books back in the day. How different life might have been. Eventually, a 68k was nice, but actual documentation was hard to come by where I grew up. Didn't actually really learn to use assembly before 8051 classes much later.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Yea, we've got it so easy today. These kids have no idea :-P

But seriously, I'm sorry that sucks. I happened to be lucky enough with an uncle-in-law's dad being an EE and just literally gave me a bunch of 6502 development stuff (by that time it was reasonably dated and he had retired). I also got lucky to live in a place where the libraries has tech and programming books that were pretty decent. Had those two things not been there, it would have been a very different story.

I try to pay that forward any way I can by taking part in the local tech/invention/science fair thing. Hopefully to be there to show youngsters how wonderful and interesting tech can be.