Honestly, the really gruesome low-level stuff is what fascinates me most as an outsider. Now, I’m a history teacher, so perhaps that helps explain my leanings,

Honestly, the really gruesome low-level stuff is what fascinates me most as an outsider. Now, I’m a history teacher, so perhaps that helps explain my leanings, but I find 1950s-1960s computer history most fascinating for just that reason: it involves a lot of really close to the metal stuff.