true, the machines in those days were much more limited and hence more understandable.... I'm a product of that era but what inspired me back then was hoping to

true, the machines in those days were much more limited and hence more understandable.... I'm a product of that era but what inspired me back then was hoping to create games similar to what I was then playing. Don't get me wrong, I would love for kids to get into the MicroBit, I deal with similar systems all day long (embedded/realtime stuff on Cortex-Ms) but although its more accessible now due to the MicroBit and RPi, it seems to me that there is still a cognitive gap for kids to jump.