I used the ASR 33 in the early days of microprocessor development.
One of the first 'real' applications that I was assigned was control the operation of a 30 channel inductively coupled plasma spectrometer. I chose an Intel 8080 s-100 bus single board computer which had (if I recall properly) 4 2708 E-Prom slots on it.
At the time, my development was done on a DEC pdp-11, on a cross assembler, which had two outputs, an 8080 assembly language printout and a machine code image for the 8080. The machine code was fed to the ASR-33 and punched on paper tape. E-Prom burners were expensive back then, so every iteration of code had to be punched on paper tape, carried to a neighboring company who would read the tape back in, and burn a set of E-Proms for $25. We of course also kept a backup on 80 column punched cards. When floppy disks came out, life got a lot easier!
One of the first 'real' applications that I was assigned was control the operation of a 30 channel inductively coupled plasma spectrometer. I chose an Intel 8080 s-100 bus single board computer which had (if I recall properly) 4 2708 E-Prom slots on it.
At the time, my development was done on a DEC pdp-11, on a cross assembler, which had two outputs, an 8080 assembly language printout and a machine code image for the 8080. The machine code was fed to the ASR-33 and punched on paper tape. E-Prom burners were expensive back then, so every iteration of code had to be punched on paper tape, carried to a neighboring company who would read the tape back in, and burn a set of E-Proms for $25. We of course also kept a backup on 80 column punched cards. When floppy disks came out, life got a lot easier!