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You nailed it. I used TECO, first on the DECWriters (which printed on paper) and later on the ADM-3A's using TECO with a TECO macro that turned it into a screen editor. My editor today (microEmacs) is really not much different from that. A couple ASR-33s were available, but I wouldn't use them as they were soooo slooooooow. There was a Tektronix terminal with the green screen storage tube, too, but being a storage tube made it unsuitable for screen editing and playing Empire.

I'd often print a listing, and take it back to the dorm and go over it with a pencil making changes that I'd later type in. I usually was at the Jorgenson computer center in the wee hours of the morning when terminals were available and the PDP-10 wasn't slowed to glacial speeds by everyone else using it.

On Christmas vacation, I'd fill spiral notebooks with handwritten code I'd type in when I got back to campus.

I don't write code in pencil anymore, but I often do work it out in my head while jogging.

I don't recall when lower case was available, but Empire being all in upper case certainly suggests it was not when I wrote it.

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