My boys love 1986 computing
I initially gave my two girls an old desktop computer with a linux on it.  They started to use it before I showed them how and they started figuring stuff out without me and soon I was sitting riveted in the background watching them discover things and trying to learn about computer UIs and work out how they thought.Here's an old blog post about it: http://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/19500788060/my-te... - I think its a fun read.Fast forward to now; that blog post is hopelessly out of date!I gave them old-but-decent laptops and, eventually, internet access.As soon as they had internet access they stopped tinkering and exploring and started only using the laptop to watch repeat episodes of childrens TV.And now they often want to use their mum's iPad - to play music and watch TV - but they are completely utterly uninterested in tinkering with any PCs.Its sad but its true and I wish I knew what to do about it.