This is really cool, I especially like how commodity most of the parts are.<p>The 8-bit micro era, for me, was where personal computing really began. Suddenly the market gave people access to computers at an affordable price that empowered them to create their own tools[0] with BASIC, which they often booted directly into. They were simple systems that didn't try to manage your life for you, or act like you didn't really own them, or give you the safety scissors version of computing. That sort of experience is sadly quite lacking today.<p>And this thing is significantly more powerful than most of those systems, but still acts like one of them. I think it's great.<p>[0] And play games. Don't discount the value of that, many a child convinced their parent to buy them a computer so they could play games and ended up teaching themselves to program because it was empowering and they could create their own games.