Ah, don't mistake many of us collectively romping through the piles of outdated software and hardware with rose-colored goggles as something like that.
Nostalgia trips aside, I certainly wouldn't be eager to trade my three-decades-refined tooling and easy access to answers so readily. That old shit broke all the time. It may have been fun then, but I wouldn't want to return to days of squeezing kilobytes of RAM via autoexec.bat and config.sys tweaking, or agonizing over the perfect combination to keep my IRQs straight across all of my ISA slots.
Nostalgia trips aside, I certainly wouldn't be eager to trade my three-decades-refined tooling and easy access to answers so readily. That old shit broke all the time. It may have been fun then, but I wouldn't want to return to days of squeezing kilobytes of RAM via autoexec.bat and config.sys tweaking, or agonizing over the perfect combination to keep my IRQs straight across all of my ISA slots.