[Coco] What was used before EDTASM+?

[Lee]

In '82 when I got into the CoCo, I remember hand assembling. I'd write my
assembly out on paper, then I had a thin folder with multiple pages in it
with the mnemonics and machine codes and their data bytes and I'd convert
my assembly to machine code and enter it into DATA statements in a BASIC
loader.  I don't remember when I got EDTASM+, but I see a letter to the
Editor I wrote to the May 1984 Rainbow magazine talking about doing
Assembly. :)
-----,
Lee


On Tue, Aug 2, 2022 at 6:09 PM gene heskett via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
wrote:

> On 8/2/22 16:53, 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?
> Probably, I've done it for 3 processors now and its not even difficult
> if the machine has a hex monitor.
> That is all a Quest Super Elf had and I wrote an automation preparation
> controller for the tv station I
> was at in 78-79.  That's an RCA 1802 processor. To say it was handy
> would be an understatement,
> it was in daily use yet in their control room when the whole studio
> building burnt to the ground in
> the late 90's. Close to 20 years. In a tv stations control room, that's
> a couple eons. Then I did another
> project for a radio station using Z-80 boards. Junk. When I found the
> coco's in early '85, I was in hog
> heaven with os9 v1.00.00, a real OS.
>
> We've come a loooong ways since.
> >
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> Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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