[ivarkotnik]

The current RasPi community is not the community it was really intended for. It's primary audience is kids and youngsters and allowing them to get a feeling for a computer.

And kids today are way smarter than I was at their age. They catch on very quickly and their curiosity as well as thirst to learn allows them to quickly adapt the RasPi to their wishes.

[slurgfest]

Anyone who thinks that it was easy for kids to program those old computers probably doesn't remember looking through thick manuals of memory addresses, which would lead me to question how much they really did.

[shanselman]

LOL, totally. I remember entering in the escape codes for an Epson FX-80 dot matrix printer because there was no such thing is a printer driver. Just copied it from the back of the manual. Took a weekend.

[ralph]

I looked through the BASIC manual of the ZX81; it had no thick section of memory addresses?