Definitely get a few generations old machine. Something that runs modern software but is noticeably slow, your kids will want to google tips and tricks on optim

Definitely get a few generations old machine. Something that runs modern software but is noticeably slow, your kids will want to google tips and tricks on optimizing it. Like a westmere optiplex, older think stations/thinkpads etc. That's how a lot of us got into computers, I think.