“a Timex Sinclair for a server.”
Believe it or not I used one of those with an old black and white TV and cassette tape to write a program that shaved about $5,000/year worth of time off of a routine lab calculation we used to run manually at a foundry sand mill back in the early 80’s.
I didn’t have any io devices so I used it to learn Basic. Of course when I turned it off all data was gone. All 1K of it. It taught me alot for $29. I could draw a circle! If then else goto.