I just had a "fun" realization that despite collecting old computers, I hate all the companies who made them.
I guess what I'm into is what they brought to society. I'm interested in all the contributions people made to the world of computers. The fun we had on them. The usefulness they still potentially have. The long nights programmers spent writing code for to make a program that people used for a little while, then sadly discarded.
That is why I hunt for old programs.
@caz this is basically (or mostly) happened in the proprietary software ecosystem. Those who've written code for free software are still there, some of them working on systems, and some of them got lost...
but programs those heavily depended on the operating system (and in the early 80-90s most programs were), got lost as soon as the market changed.
What's also hilarious is that while most of my time using old computers is on Windows, I have many more Apple computers that are just sitting around gathering dust.
I'll probably sell most of the apples when I move, but the question is: which ones?