Inspired by movies like Ready Player One, which glorifies the technology of the 1980s, and The Martian, which encourages a hacker/engineer ethic, many students have expressed interest in using kits to build the types of computers that they’ve heard about from the dawn of the personal computer age. Retro computers have an approachability that modern computers can’t match, even a Raspberry Pi. Using modern kits built around the 1970s and 1980s, students can learn the basics of computation, binary, assembly...