How do you measure nuclear warhead yield with a PDP-11?
I so desperately wanted to get in on this novel personal computing thing, and I couldn&#x27;t afford a computer. In 1976 I bought a book on machine and assembly language programming not knowing a thing from a bookstore on Wall St. somewhere. It was for the DEC PDP-11. I went through the first third or so of it with pencil and paper and put boxes on the side to show me the status of registers. Not productive, but not a waste of time. I then bought a Commodore PET in 1978 and the rest is history! That early exercise made it easy for me to learn 6502 assembly and work on the Vic-20, C64, C128, and PowerPC Macs.