The lede image is giving me serious flashbacks. Just not sure if it's nostalgia or PTSD...
Little bit of both for sure. Learning to program on a system not too different than that was... simpler times. I still remember the super satisfying clack that those power switches made, and the sound of sliding the steel shell off because the damn thing wouldn't boot. Also slicing my knuckles up on the solder joints on the back of the expansion cards. Spending a day with a multimeter and scope trying to find a bad trace on a card, finding it, and then soldering a jumper between the pins and getting the thing to work was so satisfying in a way that today's tech just doesn't allow for.
