8085 Dissasembly?

[Chuck Guzis]

How many started coding for a machine writing machine code?

I recall that the IBM 1620 SPS coding forms had two sides--one for
coding assembly (SPS); the other labeled "IBM 1620 Absolute Coding
System".  Basically a form with the first 5 positions reserved for the
address, 2 positions for the opcode and 5 positions each for the P and Q
addresses.

You could enter the code from the form right into the console typewriter
or punch it on a keypunch.  If you were a real hard-case, you didn't
bother with coding forms, you sat down at the typewriter and did
everything from memory, mentally keeping track of storage addresses and
what referenced them.

Do this for a while and disassembly is easy.  After all, you'll have all
of the instructions and their opcodes committed to memory.

I believe that I can still do this for 8080 code, in spite of my
deteriorating wetware.

--Chuck