Taking the time to isolate the problem and repair the crystal on a 30-year-old computer, when you could as easily have used an emulator or picked up another one

Taking the time to isolate the problem and repair the crystal on a 30-year-old computer, when you could as easily have used an emulator or picked up another one on eBay, just because it's more fun to fix it yourself - that's pretty much the definition of a hacker, right there.