Whilst you children were playing with the first Home Computers, the BBC and The Spectrum, that my early teen children were playing with, I was well into applying their forerunners on industrial applications like process/machine control and safety/shut down systems.
It shows why I don’t have the knowledge I should have ......although I could design system using relays/logic blocks..... writing the ‘
software’ for the later programmable electronic devices was done by others and was a different skill set. All I did was to configure it to industrial control systems by using what you would now call a browser ...... a very crude browser. It presented the available functions and I/O status on a visual interface, usually a black/white or black/green 4"/6" CRT monitor ..... it didn't even have a mouse or a qwerty keyboard. I only needed to know what this ‘
thing’ would do and it’s limitations and apply it to something that I did know how it worked.
I never needed to know how it did what it did! But then I am going back to the early 60’s! I doubt you could do what I could do then and I certainly couldn’t do what you can do now .......... I don’t even know what you lot are talking about a lot of the time.