Back in the days before kids could be placated with a $50 Android burner phone, many a youngster was gifted a so-called “educational computer” to keep them occupied. Invariably looking like a fever ...

Here's my detailed Pixelmator drawing of it: It took cartridges, and the computer read to me/asked me questions about spelling, I think. It had 7 or 8 red LED letters and a membrane keyboard. It was ...

Our more youthful readers are fairly likely to have owned some incarnation of a VTech educational computer. From the mid-1980s and right up to the present day, VTech has been producing vaguely laptop ...