>"Desk checking" was a Good Thing!
>
>Ah, those were the days...  Kids of today don't
>know how lucky they are...   :-)))

and then there was the loop where instead of using a mainframe, you had
access to something that ran the assembler, but your storage and input
medium was an ASR33 teletype with paper tape reader/punch. Ah the joys of
hearing this thing clanking away as it read the tape, (2 passes minimum
please, manual change of tape between passes) and then the result was
punched into a tape - if it assembled correctly. Then you read the output
tape into the development system to load the code, only to find it crashed
and burned because you had a label in the wrong place :))


and then of course, to create the source tape you used a line editor, and
typed in many lines of source, asked it to save, at which point you got many
lines of error message because you hadn't gone into edit mode :)) Quick, on
with the punch to catch as much of the output as possible.

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