Yes, it's close to what I'm feeling. I booted a pentium 2 era Dell desktop and all the physical aspects (volume, surface, motor noise, activity led) made me fee

Yes, it's close to what I'm feeling. I booted a pentium 2 era Dell desktop and all the physical aspects (volume, surface, motor noise, activity led) made me feel happier. It's partly emotional but also informational, I'm informed of what is there and what is happening (for disk activity led it's also very very useful, I miss that on hdd and usb keys all the time). Todays machines are unbelievably powerful but it's basically a nanoscopic blackbox out of reach for your mind.