On: The 90s Developer Starter Pack

[j45]

The best thing about this was the terror of taking apart what was usually a $2-4000 home Pc and putting it together again.

Learning all the hardware acronyms set a foundation for software development because you could debug though what the computer was doing.

It’s almost an unfair advantage these days in some cases.

[mr_toad → j45]

Ah yes, fiddling with jumper switches in inaccessible locations, tiny screws in even more inaccessible locations, trying to get an IDE card into a slot without breaking something, cables that were too short. I don’t miss it.

[j45 → mr_toad]

Were there other choices then?