You literally wrote things, things that worked, in assembly, and you're wondering if you were ever able to code? You're being way too hard on yourself.

Although... "coding" originally meant doing what an assembler does - translating mnemonics into binary (or octal or hex) instructions, literally encoding the instructions. So by the original standards, if you're using even an assembler, then no, you're not.

But definitions change over time. By current standards, from what you said, you definitely are able to code.