Nope, can't do that. When I listen to music, it's a foreground task for me, and the more masterpiece it is, the more real time compute of my brain it needs. So no chance for Bach here. However any job that can itself be put into background, like driving or washing dishes, I have to have something for the foreground! PS: Brandenburg Concerto is amazing

There was! [Covox Speech Thing ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covox\_Speech\_Thing)

I'm using it now as I type and all the other time. This is my favourite.

Yamaha MSX2. Although I didn't own it, that's the one I spent countless hours after school in grades 8 and 9, doing everything from ROM Basic to opcodes. It had crazy number of colors (dont remember exactly how many but no less than 256), hardware sprites (fun!), 4 channel sound synthesizer (so much fun!), and Zilog Z80 inside (not that much fun at that age but still). And of course those beautiful Konami games I still occasionally enjoy in an emulator.

Modern day Norton Commader reincarnations - Midnight Commander and FAR Manager - on daily basis. Ah yes of course, the whole bunch of unix tools - grep, awk, sed, and so on. This is something that is standing above all times.