>Given this is Hacker News… it was a magical time for technology.

Honestly, I was probably the most "techy" person I knew and I remember spending a lot of time back then messing around configuring memory and what was loaded to get things to run. It was interesting at the time, but I was also young and had nothing better to do.

To me, I find technology today be a lot more magical. I'm really glad I don't have to spend so much time just to get something basic running today.