OP here, I didn't phrase that right. It was meant along the lines of "Look at all these mechanical linkages, its all replaced by relay logic now-a-days". Indeed

OP here, I didn't phrase that right. It was meant along the lines of "Look at all these mechanical linkages, its all replaced by relay logic now-a-days". Indeed, a SoC + PMIC and a few stray bypass caps will replace the whole motherboard - that's a great thing. It's sort of like appreciating old timers for doing what they had to do with the tools they had at the time - how NES game developers had 40KB of space to fit their game in which lead to some incredible resourceful hacks [1]. Obviously, today's game engines are "better" in every metric possible if by "better" we measure those metrics as higher/faster/easier == better. There is also a fascinating reason why a game engine like Pico8 [2] exists when we have almost unlimited compute/storage resources and if everything was "better" in the modern age :) OP does have nostalgia, otherwise why would he purchase old useless gadgets? ;) [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21213840 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21213840 [2] https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php