I love the stories that come out every year about seniors in highschool have never seen a brick phone, don't know what a vinyl album is etc.
Not from the days of punch cards and individual magnets wrapped in wire in a matrix to store 1K of data at a time! Do recall sitting down at an Apple II and teaching myself Pascal as the first language with the little turtle, once in a while a teacher would come by to see what I was upto, but none of them knew how to do what I was teaching myself.
Got paid by a couple of magazines as a high school student for articles or services anyone remember the Open Apple newsletter, I made the Britannica style index for that for years. I do miss the ProDos in the apple II scene and the Dos Bros if I recall their wacky adds.
Endless hours programming in Orca/M assembly, playing Origin in monochrome orange and thinking this is just the Ultimate!
Skipped the sinclair, but did have a Ti 99/4a with the cassette drive.. Had the Apple IIc until a few years ago, just got tired of storing it.