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>>>I liked Assembler too, although I doubt I could even remember any of it. I learned while I was in college, but not in any classes. I worked part-time at the computer center on campus to earn enough to pay my tuition and books. At first I did operations stuff, cleaning the tape drives, taking the jobs off of the printer, etc. Later they gave me little programming jobs ... that's how I learned Assembler ... for IBM 370.
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>>hi Bonnie,
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>>I was taught ibm 370 assembler too - in a distant past - and I really liked it. Never did any of it after school - but I remember we had an excercise - a program which we had to make, punch the cards in school, and on a saturday morning, the whole class went to a company which had a 370 (school could not afford a 370 - we had an old Burroughs gamma 30 with 20,000 bytes of core memory. I learned programming in machine language on it).
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>>Each of us put their stack of cards in the reader and let our program run. I had no mistakes (program or mis-punched cards) and I was out in under an hour while the rest were struggling with their core dumps - those were the times.
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>Core dumps -- one of the pleasures of life back then. If you could have shown an assembler programmer the Visual Studio debugger they would have thought they had died and gone to heaven.

One of the nice things of assembler back then was that the program could change itself, ie modfy its instructions