> Arguable since only a tiny percentage of Vic-20 owners ever wrote more than two lines of code, while vast numbers of kids use the Apple ][ in schools.. I don

> Arguable since only a tiny percentage of Vic-20 owners ever wrote more than two lines of code, while vast numbers of kids use the Apple ][ in schools.. I don't know about your school, but at mine folks were playing Oregon Trail and simple math word problems on Apple ]['s and that was about it. "Coding" didn't happen until maybe 11th or 12th grade - as an elective choice. Prior to that time, on my C64 I was copying programs (painfully) out of the back of magazines in my free time after school. Point is, just because there were computers in schools did not somehow create a legion of CS majors. Heck, more than half the folks in the programming class I took (late 80s) all had 'cheap' computers at home. They only the class because they perceived it to be an easy A or B.