We should have a site where these experiences are retained. My teen years were in the 80s and I was mad about the Z80 in my cheap Laser 200 but was too isolate

We should have a site where these experiences are retained. My teen years were in the 80s and I was mad about the Z80 in my cheap Laser 200 but was too isolated to have access to much information and equipment. Yet, I reversed engineered the schematic of my little, made my own memory expansion (I couldn't afford the official one) out of stacked SRAM chips, mapped the ROM, build my own crude tools to see what was going on in the hardware, coded assembler by hand and poked the memory to store the programs, one byte at a time... It taught me about electronics, fundamentals of gate logic and how microprocessors worked, programming (and no I wasn't ruined by BASIC), and those constant discoveries drove me to want to know more. It was such a formative and fun experience for a curious teen to explore something in depth -with no help other than a few magazine and books- and uncovering the layers of what made a computer tick, however minimal that computer was.