> old hardware is typically much easier to understand. The old hardware is also more trustworthy -- perhaps as a corollary to said easier comprehensibility, or

> old hardware is typically much easier to understand. The old hardware is also more trustworthy -- perhaps as a corollary to said easier comprehensibility, or simply thanks to unwitting limitations-as-a-feature. There weren't computers all the way down, each with its own bugs, security issues, modes of surveillance/exfiltration, and ability to poke memory with impunity.