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Back then these books for home micros were targeted to children so you had cartoons and funny drawings explaining programming concepts.

Some of these books are still available. Usborne put a bunch of their old ones from the 80's for free online:

http://www.usborne.com/catalogue/feature-page/computer-and-c...

See their assembly book, "Machine Code for Beginners"



Thanks for the reference!




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