What I like about old computers: creative solutions. These machines were severely limited by today standards, so to do anything useful, interesting workarounds

What I like about old computers: creative solutions. These machines were severely limited by today standards, so to do anything useful, interesting workarounds had to be developed. In the home-computer field, for example, using off-the-shelf cassette tape as storage, compiling code in multiple passes with persistence, simpler byte-code interpreting to increase code density, memory bank switching and other techniques are part of the charm of using that hardware. Also, it is usually impressive to watch anything useful and quickly being done by constrained hardware.