I personally got my computer when I was 15, not because I didn't want it till I was 15 but because my parents could not afford it (and I got it even at that time because my sister took up a course in computer science in high school and my father got a promotion which increased his limited government salary). I had been interested in computers from the age of 13 (well that was when I had really got familiar with it, before that it was just voodoo to me), I tried to learn some programming in (gasp gasp) C, by reading books which I purchased from a crap dealer and stealing time on school computers by doing extra work for teachers. I wanted a computer disparately but could not get it. Why? Because getting a computer is indeed a class privilege even now (btw I am 19 right now so all this did not happen a terribly long time ago).
Try to think of people other than at school. Those people had the privilege but chose not to exercise it, but there are people (still) in the world who cannot afford a computer for their children even now.
And this point is wrong. The kids who got computers in the 80's had both interest and parents who could afford it.
Anyway, as someone else pointed out already, this is moot - today's freshman was 8 in 2000, not 1985.
I am not originally from the US, so I'm not sure to what extent the assumptions made in the article (about class privilege, systemic racism, etc) apply to my situation, if at all.
In any case, my parents were not especially rich, and were not first in line to buy me a "home computer" when they came out in the 1980s. Nevertheless, I did get one when I was 12, a few years later than some of my friends. I have been hacking ever since.
There were also many kids in my class who were not interested in computers at all, and therefore didn't want (or get) one. I doubt that this was because they were "poorer" or "underprivileged", since they got other things that I wasn't interested in (designer clothing, expensive sneakers, etc).