I'm with you, brother. I have a veritable fleet of old 8-bit machines - all the systems I coveted, but could never afford as a teenager. Except now I can affo

I'm with you, brother. I have a veritable fleet of old 8-bit machines - all the systems I coveted, but could never afford as a teenager. Except now I can afford it. :) My advice to you: find a local hackerspace and get involved in some creative archaic computing workshops. Its the only way to convince yourself that there is absolutely nothing wrong with collecting old machines and keeping them running. For my part, I'm a huge Oric-1/Atmos/Telestrat fan, and have perfect mint-condition working examples of them, along-side the C64, ZX Spectrum, and Amstrad machines. There is nothing quite so satisfying as running some brand new - as in, written in the 21st century - software on the old Oric machines .. truly a delightful way to spend a few hours, not just reminiscing - but rejoicing in the delights of newly-coded software for these old, humble machines. (Visit http://oric.org http://oric.org and http://www.defence-force.org/ http://www.defence-force.org/ if you wanna see what I mean..) Remember this: old computers never die - their users do!