I sometimes feel like playing around with something archaic... possibly something that existed before I was born But I'd love to have the hardware for it too... some of those huge tape drives and whatnot.

Anyway MB it depends what you've tried already. I'm simply trying out a bunch of Linux distros, Fedora was nice but shitty hardware support [on my laptop as my desktop, but maybe it's not general]. Slack was all right but I needed something a bit more security focused. I chanced upon PHLAK [Professional Hacker's Linux Assault Kit - yeah maybe I shouldn't use it :P] and so I'll give it a try.

But yeah, what did you try? Sheer curiosity...

cheers!