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   Knut Roll-Lund wrote:   
   > michaelkeega@gmail.com wrote:   
   >   
   >> Does anybody know where I can get a virtual cassette file of   
   >> Microsoft's Macro Assembler for the Model 1? Ira's website no longer   
   >> downloads software files. I am running david Keil's emulator.   
   >>   
   >> It was my first intro to Assembler (if you don't count hand assembly   
   >> and POKEing). I just wanted to touch bases with the good old days of   
   >> writing COP16K etc.   
   >>   
   >> Thanks in anticipation,   
   >> Michael   
   >>   
   > If you mean EDTASM I have just sent you, on email, cas files made from   
   > the original tape I have. It is MS Editor/Assembler plus v1.8 and as   
   > well as EDTASM it also contains ZBUG. Bought it in 1981.   
   >   
   > I did use it a lot but when I got floppydrives I switched to misosys   
   > EDAS. EDTASM was also the main reason I bought a printer. With only 16   
   > lines on the screen and the line editor for editing program overview   
   > was difficult to keep when programs got longer.   
      
   Boy did this post bring back memories.  I remember not being able to afford   
   EDTASM, so I would write my code in a notebook, assemble it by hand and put   
   it into the computer with T-Bug, the much cheaper tape debugger.  Obviously   
   I wasn't writing very large programs at the time.   
      
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