The author makes a good point as to the high cost of computers in the US in previous decades, which meant kids who grew up using computers tended to be upper-mi

The author makes a good point as to the high cost of computers in the US in previous decades, which meant kids who grew up using computers tended to be upper-middle class, but what about places like Britain where the Sinclair Spectrum and various Amstrad machines reigned in the 1980s-early 1990s? These were cheap machines. It would be interesting to see if this cheapness led to a more diverse set of programmers.