When I was growing up, my family was too poor to afford any kind of computer. Finally, I built a computer from scrap parts but I could not run it because we cou

When I was growing up, my family was too poor to afford any kind of computer. Finally, I built a computer from scrap parts but I could not run it because we could not afford electricity to run it. For many years the only way I could program was pen and paper, and a bit later a Citizen SRP-175 programmable calculator with mind-blowing memory to run 128 instructions. I would go to a library, borrow a bunch of books some of which were programming, and knock myself out writing programs on paper that I could only ever "execute" in my mind. If you have an old computer, there probably is a child who would give an arm and a leg to have a chance to have fun with it.