I always see those videos where people give kids a walkman or a rotary phone and ask them to figure out what it is or how it works. I'm imagining some medieval merchant handing me an abacus and laughing because I can't figure it out.

Young whippersnappers.

Don't buy copper from this guy, it's low-quality and your messenger will be treated with contempt.

On the Amiga's 40th birthday I brought the old Amiga 500 out of storage to the dinner table and we had cake. Just realized I should do the same with the Atari ST, for more cake. I think my family tolerates me because of the cake.

Then you will enjoy the news that Commodore was bought recently and they want to build new equipments, starting with a C64.

Yes, it was a nice little machine, the first computer I used at home. I shared it with some friends because our parents couldn't afford it unless we pooled our money. Each of us would have it for a week then take it to the next kid's house. In those days you had the option of buying it prebuilt or (cheaper) as a kit, and I still remember how excited I was when my dad and I came out of the electronics shop with a bag full of circuit boards, chips and keys that would magically become a computer when soldered together.

The Acorn story is really amazing: a tiny hobbyist company that got a break when the BBC commissioned the BBC micro from them, that went on to invent the ARM chips that are in billions of phones and other devices now.

there must be some noticeable latency on that

Yeah, if you can keep them running, they're surprisingly efficient. And they hardly ever jam. But all the printouts look like garbage and feel like you're trying to interpret ancient runes. When we got our first inkjet printer at home, I suddenly struggled to read anything from the ol' dot matrix.