Groupe Bull? I remember them. I wonder how we can give kids today that same sense of wonder and joy of tinkering we had. I guess today's equivalent would involve robotics, since personal computers are all played out.

Maker spaces seem to have the right hacker ethos around explore, tinker, finish.

I'm on a bunch of retrocomputing discords where youth still find obscure old systems, typically Sun, SGI and the parallel universe IBM systems (mainframes and as/400 line), and manage to figure them out.