Sometimes it's useful to be able to run modern software on ancient hardware. I once made an image of a hard disk so old it wouldn't work on anything newer than

Sometimes it's useful to be able to run modern software on ancient hardware. I once made an image of a hard disk so old it wouldn't work on anything newer than a Pentium. I plugged in a USB PCI card+USB stick and booted a modern-ish at the time Debian Live CD. It took over 5 minutes to decompress just the kernel and a hour to copy the HDD to the USB stick, but it did work. The time delta between the oldest and newest component on that system was well over 20 years, sometimes this is what you have to do with what you have on hand.