Do you ever think about what's the oldest system you could do much of your daily work on? If we ignore the bloated internet for a second, many programmers would be fine with an early 90s unix work station and feel right at home provided they have ssh or similar.
@ne1for23@ChartreuseK You are right! All I need is a decent text/code editor, that is it. And serial port, which was available on every machine back then, that is all...