The great thing about old cars is that you can fix them up pretty much yourself, while a modern car has all kinds of software driven behaviour that is really ha

The great thing about old cars is that you can fix them up pretty much yourself, while a modern car has all kinds of software driven behaviour that is really hard to touch as a non-professional mechanic. A Commodore 64 or PDP-11 is the equivalent of that. There's 64Kb of RAM and I can understand every byte that is there, what it does, and how it ties into the hardware. When I look at most C64 games, I understand exactly how it's made. I can also do the same things myself. You might have the full Linux kernel code, but do you really understand completely how it works?