[jdkee]

There is certainly a nostalgia that I feel about tech from when I was 8 until 15 years old. This corresponded with Radio Shack 100-in-1 electronics kits, the Mattel Big Trak programmable vehicle, Mattel handheld electronic games, the Vectrex gaming system, the ZX-81 and the Commodore Amiga 500 computer. And I will throw in old Edmund Scientific catalogs for good measure. I was pre-Nintendo and Sega and certainly pre-Playstation and Xbox by a generation

I imagine the current crop of college students that I teach today will feel the same about Minecraft, Angry Birds and the original iPad when they reach their 40s or later.

[WalterBright]

This is the electronics kit I had as a boy:

https://generalatomic.com/teil1/index.html

If you work through the base kit and the sequels, it offers a complete undergraduate course in electronics, minus the math.

[jdkee]

I should have included my top Amiga games, Defender of the Crown, Dungeon Master and Empire.