I understand what you're saying about how to bring computers into perspective for the younger generations. So .. My kids have a working 8-bit computer setup in

I understand what you're saying about how to bring computers into perspective for the younger generations. So .. My kids have a working 8-bit computer setup in their bedroom. It was my first 'real' computer, 48k. (Oric-1) They learned to hack on that before they got to a PC. The 6-year old regularly totes his OLPC along to the grandparents, just to run the emulators of these old machines. There is something magnificent about being able to plot something in BASIC and see the results immediately. My kids, I think, got just as much fundamental understanding of what the computer was doing, because of this interface, as I did when I was younger. There is much value to not throwing things away.