Doing just this, around 2001 or so, provided a teenaged me with my first skills in IT. I would take castoffs being thrown out by the school, or stuff other kid

Doing just this, around 2001 or so, provided a teenaged me with my first skills in IT. I would take castoffs being thrown out by the school, or stuff other kids had gotten from family members who upgraded, fix them up, upgrade them if I could, and put on a suitable OS with any customizations and streamlining I could do to make them run the best they could. I think I even worked on a 486 once which was pretty old. But it could do word processing! I still miss that! When I see an old PC sitting around I yearn for an excuse to do that again. Sadly I don’t think I could find anyone who would want them.