>The fact is, this machine still does what it started out to do, technically speaking. If you look up the dictionary definition of obsolescence though, you'll f

>The fact is, this machine still does what it started out to do, technically speaking. If you look up the dictionary definition of obsolescence though, you'll find some really terrible news: "no longer useful." An Atari 800 is no longer useful? That's arguable, to say the very least. Obsolete (Adj.): no longer used or needed, usually because something newer and better has replaced it. It doesn't matter whether the Atari 800 still does something. It's so bad compared to newer options that there is no circumstance where it's the best available option. We live in a world where a 32-bit microcontroller costs about the same as a banana. $10 buys you a single-board computer with roughly the same performance as a mid-00s desktop. Human effort is worth something. So is energy, so are raw materials. Keeping old, crappy stuff just isn't a good use of resources when new stuff is immeasurably better and ludicrously cheap. Melt down the old stuff for scrap metal, burn the plastics for fuel and use that material and energy to do something more useful.