On 26/10/2015 07:01 PM, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:
> Don't get me wrong, I think it's *way* easier to learn system-level
> programming on obsolete hardware. (It's how *I* did it!) But I doubt
> many kids these days would get out of bed to see some blocky 8-bit
> graphics.

https://hackaday.com/2015/10/19/diy-computer-1968-style/

"You can argue that times change and that the paperclip computer is a 
relic. Maybe. But I can’t help think if you built one of 
these–especially as a kid–you’d get a lot more insight into how a 
computer actually works than by only slinging some Javascript, or 
setting up a Web server on a Raspberry Pi."

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