RE: https://mastodon.social/@individual8/117557165349813181
Ah you know, this really got me thinking, what such a gift to one's child would look like today.
Back in the 60s, for example, one could gift an electronics kit, so the kid could get a spark for building stuff. In the 80s, that'd be whatever small machine was in your region, mine was a Spectrum clone. In the 90s, that'd be an IBM clone, a 386 or 486 or whatever, so one gets a programmer kid.
What would it be today, though? A claude subscription? Only utterly deranged could do that to their child.
What do you think?
35 years ago, my dad chose an Intel 80386 over a typewriter – and sparked a lifelong obsession.
With 1 MB RAM, a 40 MB hard drive, and a color CRT monitor, I was completely hooked. Within weeks, I had figured out COM1 vs. LPT1 and was obsessively tweaking autoexec.bat and config.sys for expanded memory. While friends played on C64s and Ataris, this was my true beginning in tech.
@infosecdj Depends what they want to build. For mine it was an adequately powerful computer with suitable touchscreen for art, and krita.