[Coco] What was used before EDTASM+?

[Joel Rees]

2022年8月3日(水) 5:50 Allen Huffman via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>:

> 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?
>

Real tools from other companies?

EDTASM in any of its incarnations was cheap and easy to get for hobby level
work. I pity all who tried to use it for production work. (I did, so I have
empathy, not sympathy.)