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Learned assembler on the 6502.
Same here! Still have my copy of 6502 software design that I used until it fell apart.
Sometimes I wish I'd had one and some books back in the day. How different life might have been. Eventually, a 68k was nice, but actual documentation was hard to come by where I grew up. Didn't actually really learn to use assembly before 8051 classes much later.
Yea, we've got it so easy today. These kids have no idea :-P
But seriously, I'm sorry that sucks. I happened to be lucky enough with an uncle-in-law's dad being an EE and just literally gave me a bunch of 6502 development stuff (by that time it was reasonably dated and he had retired). I also got lucky to live in a place where the libraries has tech and programming books that were pretty decent. Had those two things not been there, it would have been a very different story.
I try to pay that forward any way I can by taking part in the local tech/invention/science fair thing. Hopefully to be there to show youngsters how wonderful and interesting tech can be.
Me too, on the VIC-20.
Same here.
C64, here.