Comment by TacticalCoder

Yup. I've got quite the collection of old computers, including all that were mine in the past, dating back to my Atari 600 XL, Commodore 64 (several of these), Commodore 128, Commodore Amiga 500 and then a few others I collected throughout the ages: a cool Texas Instrument Ti/99-4a (had one for a few days in the past so I had to get one), a Macintosh Classic (as in TFA), the little Atari Portfolio that young John Connor uses in Terminator 2 to hack doors (I had to have one), etc.

But these are complicated to keep working, especially when you know nothing about electronics.

As the years are passing by, fewer and fewer of these are still working (yup, I did remove the batteries when applicable). And they don't bring much, if anything, compared to a modern one.

My most prized possession is however a vintage arcade cab, complete with its CRT screen and both original (and bootleg) vintage PCBs and a Raspberry Pi with a Pi2JAMMA (an arcade cab standard) adapter and thousands of arcade games on MAME.

There's something about an actual arcade cab with a CRT and proper joysticks that a modern PC with a 4090 GPU cannot reproduce. Say playing Robotron 2084! with two 8-directions joysticks (one in each hand): that's simply not an experience you get on anything else but a proper full-sized arcade cab.

Even kids, who have no nostalgic appeal to vintage arcade cabs, are drawn to that thing.

That cab I plan to keep working for a very long time. But all my 8 bit and 16 bit computers? I'm not so sure.