>The point of the article is that the privileged ones got their computers early just because there parents could afford it. And this point is wrong. The kids

>The point of the article is that the privileged ones got their computers early just because there parents could afford it. And this point is wrong. The kids who got computers in the 80's had both interest and parents who could afford it. Anyway, as someone else pointed out already, this is moot - today's freshman was 8 in 2000, not 1985.