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  • I have now clarified my question, to specify 'BASIC-Language programs' - "Could many/most home-computers of early 80's, have been capable of saving BASIC-Language programs to cassette/disk, as machine-code, or possibly even as assembly-code - Your answer does not mention 'BASIC-Language programs', so I assume thats why it contradicts Raffzahn answer. Commented Mar 30, 2022 at 1:34
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    @dntknw It dos not contradict any of it. It's a different focus provoked by asking for something hard to gasp as it implies something that never had been: homecomputer manufacturer trying to hinder people programming their products - the very use case they are made for. Commented Mar 30, 2022 at 1:47
  • In thread 24149 I described how a monitor/disassembler and assembler could be set up. They, or the system, usually had a means to save "just a block of bytes". Commented Mar 30, 2022 at 11:15