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.
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.
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