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"during the early eighties every school child in the United Kingdom was exposed to it, spawning a whole generation of bedroom programmers." Erm no. When I was at secondary school, only those deemed to be good at Maths were allowed to work with the BBC Micros, despite having some skills already from owning a ZX Spectrum at home. This maths centric view was partly why I didn't try to study Comp Sci at Uni and went to do Chem, and then fell into more IT classes and post grad and onto an IT career subsequently.