Really cool! I was lucky as a kid to have found a next-door computer store where I had basically unlimited access to old computer parts like these. It was the 9

Really cool! I was lucky as a kid to have found a next-door computer store where I had basically unlimited access to old computer parts like these. It was the 90s so it was old MFM drives, XT boards, and so on, but I could get minix running on them and it was amazing. Growing up really poor, it was the only way I could get access to interesting hardware, but you could learn a lot playing with that old stuff. Of course, x86 architecture stuck around for a long time and I can still build a modern PC more or less using the evolved versions of this skills.