[to3m]

My comment was inspired by a true story.

3 or 4 years ago I was given an old 8-bit Amstrad home computer, of the type popular when I was at school, plus assorted peripherals and associated junk. I refused to have anything to do with the filthy thing, because it had a Z80 in it, so I passed it to one of my old colleagues to add to his collection. A few days later he told me what his sons made of it. He has two, aged at the time something like 11 and 9. (Their opening comment: "What's in the box? - ohh! A computer from the olden days!" :))

Surprisingly, both correctly figured out what the 3" disks were for.

The younger had never seen a cassette tape before, and didn't know what it was. The elder did know, and even knew how you used it - though as it turned out, this was only because he had had a very similar conversation with a friend's father (though it was a car tape player that time).

There was also a VHS tape in the box. Neither had the first idea what it was.