>> I wonder what today's generation growing up on? My kids are growing up on the same old 8-bit machines that I grew up on. After all: those old 8-bit machine

>> I wonder what today's generation growing up on? My kids are growing up on the same old 8-bit machines that I grew up on. After all: those old 8-bit machines still work just fine for the task of learning to write code. Any reason not to still use old 8-bit machines to learn programming? I can't think of a single one.