As a parent, I&#x27;m using my old 8-bit machines to teach my kids computer science.  It worked then, and it still works today - in fact, they&#x27;re becoming more and more the locus of activity, the slow, cranky old 1mhz machines in the retrobattlestation, but they&#x27;re still getting massive use - the value of them is: no Internet.  You only get what you put into it.  And my eldest 8-year old is having a blast learning how to make pixel-graphics, old school .. finally a use for his math!