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by Teknoman117 1963 days ago
To be honest, the main reason I went for something so old is that 1) I had them in my collection of random electronics and 2) the newest computer that full documentation for every component in the system is available for is not a new machine.

Current computers tend to be massive black boxes. I've learned so much about random hardware by reading Linux kernel drivers when the documentation is under NDA.