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My mind is blown that they used punch cards to write Apple II software in the early days.



Only very, very early system bootstrapping stuff. Beyond that, most software was written on the machines themselves. Like this guy, who is also on HN

http://www.atariarchives.org/deli/cottage_computer_programmi...


Thank you for that reference. Paul Lutus is a childhood hero.


He wrote a cool book about sailing, also. I read it in q3 last year, then quit my job and did an atlantic crossing in november. I am now cottage programming.


Woz is fairly well known to have hand-assembled (on paper) the ROM monitor for the Apple II, which he then used to code Integer BASIC.




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