Love the history stories. Sneakers first Mac was SE/30 at work. Eventually they bought him a second monitor and added some ram. He did loads of stuff with that machine, and he missed it when they gave him a fancy one with color (I don't remember the model). My first Mac was an LC with a 40mg hard drive, and 8mg of ram; and I did amazing things with it (PageMaker, Word 5.1, Excel, Photoshop, FilemakerPro, and more), and finally wore it out.
Now ... if I had an old SE/30, I might be tempted to set up a Spotify system. I play Spotify most of the day. I have Alexa signed in and use "her" speakers throughout the house.