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by jdsully 2229 days ago
I have one of these, got it after landing my first big tech job. I learned to program on an emulator of these 8-bit computers so it meant a lot to finally get a real one.

Most people search for high level languages when learning programming. My brain worked different - I wanted to boil the complexity away and learn the fundamentals. These 8 bit machines were the simplest computers I could find to achieve that.

The joke was on me though, mine had been upgraded to a Z80 card (yay!) that unfortunately no longer worked with the front panel (boo!).

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> I wanted to boil the complexity away and learn the fundamentals.

Ah, presumably you mean the lambda calculus.

If only lambda calculus had big colourful switches and blinken lights.