Beautiful article. Thank you very much for this moment of nostalgia.
Yes, I own a ZX Spectrum 48K. My first real programs were written in BASIC, pascal and assembler on Spectrum.
I remember I had to compile my longer Pascal programs from a cassette :)
I wrote my first computer game in Spectrum BASIC.
My best program so far was 800 bytes long. A ZX80 disassembler including command line interface and several really nice features :)
Yes, I was counting cycles and optimizing code all the time.
I was dreaming machine code.
Thanks again for this tear of beautiful memory in my eye!
RE: 1982 GOTO 2017