By studying the history of computing and preserving the machines that have been developed along the way, it is possible to gain a great deal of insight into computing's present and future. Of course, if computer collecting were all done solely for historical reasons, I would imagine that there would be far fewer collectors out there.
Older computers are also generally simpler and therefore easier to understand at a component level.
It's easier to make hardware modifications to a system that is made entirely from socketed 7400-series TTL ICs than it is to make changes to a more recent system that is implemented entirely in a chipset of 2 or 3 ASICs. Contact Scott Ware . No GIF images are used on this site.