Unless there is a tradeoff. The tradeoff here being that introducing immature equipment may result in a higher risk. Plus if it's an older PDP11, it's fully d

Unless there is a tradeoff. The tradeoff here being that introducing immature equipment may result in a higher risk. Plus if it's an older PDP11, it's fully documented both hardware and software wise and is built out of flip chip modules which are essentially still replaceable and repairable to this day with a soldering iron and any half-decent EE. You can't even get half the parts in your PC from 5 years ago and there is no documentation bar some NDA smothered PDF which is mostly incorrect for most of the bits. It's the same reason I still have a 1972 oscilloscope...