First, I skimmed the article and it doesn't surprise me to hear feminist rhetoric like this. My parents are only middle-class and got a Sharp MZ-700 in 1985, w

First, I skimmed the article and it doesn't surprise me to hear feminist rhetoric like this. My parents are only middle-class and got a Sharp MZ-700 in 1985, when I was 7. It had MS-BASIC (loaded from tape!) but had no decent games. Then, I got a C64 from an aunt and uncle in 1987, and it was great. A disk drive and freezer cartridge in 1988 and I learned 6502 programming. So I was hacking since 8, but not especially privileged. Some of my friends had computers too, but they never learned to program. I did. [EDIT] My parents weren't scientists, University educators or or computer scientists as in a lot of Silicon Valley cases.