"Hands up who else had a ZX 81 then."
Me. Learned assembler on it. Still have the parsimonious programming habits too. Self-modifying code was fun (but a b*stard to debug).
"To this day I still haven't found out how to implement the Windows equivalent of del *.bak or similar when I need it!"
"Open command window here" in Windows Explorer and del *.asm away to your hearts content
