I watched a few episodes of the computer chronicles that are archived last night. The show about the commodore 64 had a very interesting line that stood out now. It was about it being proven that any computer can do any task, it is just the speed of execution is the only difference. And so they showed how the commoder 64 although old by then was still having new life by creative programming.

This show just illustrates what Eros is talking about. You might also find the shows on programming interesting, I didn't know Logo was based on Lisp and so was FORTH. I still need to watch the visual c++ show, later tonight.

http://www.archive.org/details/CC517_commodore_64