It blew my mind when I was able to set the viewport pointer to where my program code was, and SEE THE CODE AS IT RAN. Like, watch the bits flip as counters incremented, etc etc.
It was a wonderful, impactful lesson in foundations of software engineering, before I even knew what any of that meant.
A lot of that "before I knew what that meant" going on for me looking back at that time. It seems like even though we have better technology now we somehow back slid into the worst uses for it.
It was a wonderful, impactful lesson in foundations of software engineering, before I even knew what any of that meant.