Kids of Today vs 1980s Technology

An interesting experiment! Unfortunately since I moved continents I don’t have any of that old gear any more… but the concept is great and I apply it for more things.

My first computer was a Sinclair ZX80, quickly followed by the awesome Acorn BBC/B (Acorn completely missing from oldcomputers.net!)
I learnt programming slightly before, on a DEC PDP-8 (in VT78 with two 8″ floppy drives and a line printer) at a local club.

Siri, Computers, and our actual Power

Computers may have the power,
but we still hold the switch.
–Arjen Lentz (mid/late 80s)

I’m afraid that might not be true any more, considering how much of our daily lives is actually computer-controlled. How many microcontrollers run your car?

Siri, in a year