Other creative toys/products that come to mind would be, say, Play-Doh as a sort of children’s intro to…Clay, I suppose? But in this vein without being exclusively directed towards children (albeit I imagine many may be).

Always enjoyed a creative kind of toy to mess around with.

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    Too bad nowadays building a computer is so much more simple and integrated.

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      In a lot of ways, yeah, it is. It’s a lot harder to fuck it up so bad you fry something. I do miss fiddling with little jumpers to get my hard drive and CD drive working on the same ribbon though.

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        The good ol’ days. I’m not old enough to have dealt with IRQs but it’s definitely a lot easier than it used to be