Comment by nxobject

The author’s a little bit too optimistic about the longevity of old consumer market computers: having collected vintage compact Macs, you become keenly aware of all of the possible points of failure like CRT displays, storage devices, and even fragile plastics. We may have to go back to much more analog forms of I/O: typewriter teletype with decreasing levels of logic integration, random access DECtape-style magnetic tape, etc.