Wintermute_BBS<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://oldbytes.space/@rc2014" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>rc2014</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://oldbytes.space/@electron_greg" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>electron_greg</span></a></span> back in school we had a special, modular custom-bus based <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/intel8085" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>intel8085</span></a> system to teach us about computers and programming.</p><p>It also had a switch panel and I fondly remember looking up opcodes in a photocopied table so that I knew which value to "toggle" next on the switches before writing it to a memory address. Hands on computing, the real way.</p><p>It was called <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/MFA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MFA</span></a> (microcomputer für ausbildung - microcomputer for training) and it also ran CP/M and featured a <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/Siemens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Siemens</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/SPS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SPS</span></a> module (god, I hate SPS). </p><p>It was this system I learned <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/intel8085" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>intel8085</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/assembler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>assembler</span></a> on.</p><p>P.S.: I guess this baby and the fond memory I have of it made me fall in love with <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/rc2014" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rc2014</span></a> decades later ...</p>