It did teach me 8008 assembler though. Used that later build a primitive RT OS with multi-level interrupts that operated a cross-bar switch for connecting KSR 33 teletypes to different computers in the lab. That was fun. We wrote the OS in concurrent pascal pseudo-code, then hand compiled into assembler.
Watch the series where they repair an Alto computer, the disk packs and bring it up. Also repairing IBM 029 keypunch.
Amazing. And his colleagues are just as amazing.
It's only really popular because "The 8-Bit Guy" makes 45 minute videos painstakingly showing you this process, because he lacks the technical ability or background to tell you anything insightful about the computers he's working on---usually common 80s home computers that were poorly stored in someone's attic for decades.
A Commodore 64 was my first computer and it’s so satisfying diagnosing which chip is bad, replacing it and seeing the computer start up successfully.
