You make that sound like it’s a bad thing

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1993/12/28/...

Our first computer was an MS-Dos machine that our local high school were getting rid of back in 1994. I learned a lot from playing around on the machine, trying to understand the command line.

This is a different time though, computing resources are ubiquitous and cheap. I'm not sure what anyone can do with a 20 year old machine