I love them because it's a reminder of how I became interested in computers and programming in the first place. 1980 -> '84 I lived in a country town in South A

I love them because it's a reminder of how I became interested in computers and programming in the first place. 1980 -> '84 I lived in a country town in South Australia (then the second-largest city, but still only around 30k people); after school I waited for my parents to finish work in the library of the government education centre, and quickly discovered copies of Byte magazine. They had all the issues from the first in the 70s' to the then 'current day', and I can remember seeing all the adverts for very cool (or so I thought) calculators and computers and hardware bits and pieces. My interest became an obsession, and I cajoled my parents into buying a TRS80 Color Computer in 1982, started typing BASIC programs into that machine, and haven't stopped programming since. These kind of articles restore, at least a little bit, the wonder and excitement I felt at having interaction with these new amazing machines, and make it a bit easier to deal with the next JS problem, or developing that new Web API for a client.