[Coco] What was used before EDTASM+?

[L. Curtis Boyle]

A good source is the September 1983 Rainbow (on the archive). That announced the 64K Coco, The Coco 2, and OS-9.

Previous, there were some earlier assemblers (Microworks and CerComp, I think?), and some debug/monitors too. And some hand assembly, as Steve Bjork has mentioned that he did on his earliest Coco projects. Steve Hirsch did Speed Racer for Michtron by hand assembly too.

L. Curtis Boyle
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> On Aug 2, 2022, at 2:50 PM, Allen Huffman via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:
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> 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?
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