3 ms·
The Apple ][ wasn't a kid's computer, it was a computer that kids could understand because the technology was relatively primitive. Same with the C-64. I had a
by rufus_foreman 5y ago
The Apple ][ wasn't a kid's computer, it was a computer that kids could understand because the technology was relatively primitive.
Same with the C-64. I had a C-64 (one of my stepdads had a ][ but it wasn't "mine") and I had a book that told me what every memory location was used for in a C-64. It wasn't a kid's computer, it was a computer that a kid could still comprehend fully.
I don't know what to tell you. That world is gone. You can give your kids toys but that's not what that was.
- dim13 5y agoWould also add, that the point, when even well educated adult can comprehend in toto, how computer "works" now, is long passed by. It's way too complicated software, hardware and distributed networks wise.