I bought this kit in 7th grade. was like 250$. Getting that thing installed was terrible. You had to enter like 20 commands without seeing anything because it didn’t support a tv by default. Needed something called sync on green rgb monitor if I remember correctly. Which was to expensive for my 12 year old self.

It turned out like 15 years later someone found out there was a command you could enter on the keyboard to make it work right away. I believe I heard that.

I compiled a nes emulator and played through final fantasy 1 on it with a ps2 controller. Which was fun.

Other than that I remember installed a winamp clone, listening to mp3’s. Playing a few music videos I downloaded. early 2000 stuff so like linken park.

I watched dragonball z in japanese with something that supported realplayer videos.

It only had like 32 MB of ram so using it was pretty painful but it taught me the basics of linux at a early age which came in handy later in life.