It all comes down to you. Recent software on old hardware is most likely slow and hard to maintain, if it can be run at all. So to me it wouldn't be worth it.

It all comes down to you. Recent software on old hardware is most likely slow and hard to maintain, if it can be run at all. So to me it wouldn't be worth it. But if you want to run old software that meets your needs then it's ok. I've heard of an author that used Wordperfect to write. He loved the fact that he could not get distracted by other software and he loved using the word processor to write. Old hardware worked for him.