[Coco] What was used before EDTASM+?

[Dennis Bathory-Kitsz]

I was using the tape version of EDTASM for the Model I back about 1979 
and the cartridge version for the CoCo as soon as that came out.

Before that I did hand assembly. Those stacks of pages printed on a 
Teletype for revision and commenting are long gone.

I never had a CoCo disk system.


On 2022-08-02 16:50, Allen Huffman via Coco wrote:
> I have been working on a series of blog articles about the original
> CoCo OS-9 release in the 1984 Radio Shack catalogs. This was also the
> year a stock-64K model appeared to be “New for 1984”. (Was this really
> the first time Radio Shack sold a 64K CoCo?)
> 
> 1984 was also when DISK EDTASM first appeared.
> 
> The ROM-Pak EDTASM+ has a 1981 copyright, and shows up in the 1982
> Radio Shack Computer Catalog (RSC-6). I don’t see it listed in the
> previous 1981 edition.
> 
> So what were folks using to write assembly in 1980-1982 before this
> came out? Hand assembly?
>