As a 12-year old kid in the 80s I started that whole computing thing on a very similar computer (but Z80-based: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LC80 https://en.wi

As a 12-year old kid in the 80s I started that whole computing thing on a very similar computer (but Z80-based: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LC80 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LC80), mainly because I didn't have access to anything else at the time. But in hindsight I think it was the perfect start into programming, because it becomes clear pretty quickly why assemblers and higher level programming languages were invented (basically learning to program by doing a speedrun through computing history). It also takes away the irrational fear of staring at machine code hex dumps and assembly listings ;) PS: here's my attempt at emulating an LC-80 while "keeping the flair" of being exposed to the motherboard (turn down volume first): https://floooh.github.io/tiny8bit/lc80.html https://floooh.github.io/tiny8bit/lc80.html