They are fine for the enjoyment of certain games and reliving or just getting a reminder of my younger years. Yet these home computers of that era lack so much.

They are fine for the enjoyment of certain games and reliving or just getting a reminder of my younger years. Yet these home computers of that era lack so much. No MMU, no FPU, no IP networking. Very limited CPU cycles and memory. People just had more patience back then. 45 minutes to LHARC my text file? Sure, I'll talk to my wife. Four hours to download an ILBM? OK. I'll read a book. Today we're so used to living at the business end of a digital firehose that if something takes too many clock cycles we walk away. Some people can't even sit in a chair in their own homes without having music on. That 95% of the retro computing scene seems devoted to games tells me that people just crave a quick hit of digital content and then move on.