Today they miss out on all the fun things, like: - A requirement to be proficient in Morse as part of your job application, (I failed that part). - Being zapped while fixing a faulty drop shutter on a magi board. - Burning one's fingers swapping out failed valves. - ASCII images stored as rolls of punch tape. ooh la la - Submitting your computing assignment in a large box of carefully ordered punch cards, and get it back two months later with a failed mark due to a hanging tag. - Having to book an international call and use 256baud modem with acoustic coupler to connect to a text only bulletin-board. - Search using Archie, Jughead or Veronica. Then there was Gopher, which was just the bee's knees. - The extravagance of buying the memory chips to upgrade your video card from 256Kb to 1Mb, even though you only have a monochrome green screen. I must admit C# or Python are much more fun than punch cards and the Intel Tiger Lake is a little bit more responsive that the MSC-4. Not old just experienced ;)