https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_Word

I was helping to set up a computer lab at a company of a friend of my parents as a weekend job and I was like - "Hey these Mega STs are cool, I'm writing some games in assembler on my ST!"

The programmers stopped what they were doing and all looked at each other, then looked at me. "Do you want to work here for the summer?"

That's how I ended up spending an intense summer writing I/O chip drivers in 68K assembly.

Long, long time ago.

That's a great story!

I actually at one point was using the GST Assembler on my QL... but it was kinda late in my intensive use of the machine just before I moved on to an Atari ST.

Yes, programmers back then could still build full a full OS from scratch, which is not possible on modern hardware nowadays. I had a chance to help build a multitasking OS on 68030 CPUs around 1990, which was a great experience.

I ran a project to rework the QL hardware to make a financial information terminal for Australian Associated Press, which is where the trips round the world came from, allowing me to visit Ayers Rock, Singapore, Hawaii and India on the way there and back.

I pressed some of the buttons during the press launch of the QL. But we'd had an awful lot to drink the night before, followed by Bucks Fizz on arrival at the press launch, resulting in me missing a cue so Clive had to repeat it.

That's my handwriting on at least some of the labels on the picture. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/68K/OS

You can't have that much fun as a programmer these days.