[–] leavethebag 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Had an old celron build. Played the fuck out of some starcraft.
[–] happy_snek 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
TRS-80 Model 100, which at the time I got it was considered worthless. But that's the kind of thing that adults will put into the hands of children who tear things apart, old gear nobody wants anymore. Found an old book in my school library on BASIC programming for kids, and used that to figure out how to play a few games I had to type in manually.
We kinda went backwards a bit, when we stopped building small computers that could boot directly into a language prompt. They're the ideal learning tools.
[–] awshidahak 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
This is probably not the answer you're expecting
My dad knew that I really wanted a computer when I was a kid, so he managed to get his hands on one of these weird beasts. We never got a data processor to hook it up to, but it had a few offline functions that you could use anyway, namely a text editor. In fact, when you turned it on, the text editor would be the first thing you'd ever see. Without the data processor, you couldn't do much (no saving), but it was still fun to mess around with for a little while.