The die-off of 32bit really is the biggest obstacle to this sort of hobby. There is *plenty of 15-20 year old hardware that is more than fast enough for daily u

The die-off of 32bit really is the biggest obstacle to this sort of hobby. There is *plenty of 15-20 year old hardware that is more than fast enough for daily use that is 32bit only, though. However, x86_64/AMD64 came out in 2003. so there is also a crapload of 15-20 year old hardware that /is/ 64bit. Even the super low end Celeron 430 I mentioned in another comment which is from 2007, single core, 1.8ghz, 512kb l2, 800mhz fsb, supports 64bit.