I can totally identify with all of what you said there and those are great points. I wasn't much into computing in the 80's but when the 90's hit I was obsessed. The computer lab I worked at would let us just have all the old gear and me and my pack of nerds would build computers that were completely functional and learned a lot about jumper settings and stuff like that which don't exist anymore.

We also overclocked CPUS but using lead pencils and would be able to make low-powered computers absolutely fly..well, until they started on fire.