IT’S HARD TO KNOW just how much we’re handled with kid gloves these days as computer users—and this journalist says that from a Linux user’s perspective. It’s likely that many Maximum
PC readers will remember children’s electronic kits from the 1970s, like Radio Shack’s Science Fair Microcomputer Trainer. You had to handwire components to create a suitable circuit, then program the CPU by inputting single commands and variables in hexadecimal. Horrifying, but fun!