I don't know that its inapplicable to todays education market, to be honest. You can learn a lot about computing with an old 8-bit machine that is completely l

I don't know that its inapplicable to todays education market, to be honest. You can learn a lot about computing with an old 8-bit machine that is completely lost on the modern developer. Maybe if someone put LOAD81 into a small AVR-based, portable box similar to the one in the article, we'd have a new revolution in software development education. Too many times students of today leave the classroom thinking "the IDE will do all the work for me". This is a highly specious and unproductive mindset, imho .. solved by a little contact with micro-controllers and mini-tools.