Perhaps separate the nostalgic element from the desired experience of learning to program a simple computer and participate in its development culture. You cou

Perhaps separate the nostalgic element from the desired experience of learning to program a simple computer and participate in its development culture. You could get into the contemporary 8bit scene, which has an advanced homebrew side and a kid-friendly scholastic one: http://mega65.org/ http://mega65.org/ https://hackaday.io/list/2402-homebrew-computers https://hackaday.io/list/2402-homebrew-computers http://playpower.org/ http://playpower.org/ Or even Pico-8: http://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php http://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php If nothing else, it might help you figure out what your obsession is really attached to...