[Splognosticus]

I recently picked up a C128 for nostalgia's sake and find that if anything these 8-bit micros are even more interesting today than when I was a kid. These days you have all the resources the Internet provides, cross-compilers and emulators to develop homebrew software, effectively unlimited storage, access to pretty much any app ever written for the machine.

Still there are resource constraints you have to account for when you're using these things, plus getting them to interface with modern infrastructure and devices is its own challenge. Maintenance and refurbishment is also a factor, since components fail no matter how lovingly cared for the machine has been in its life.

All in all, it's not precisely a better or worse experience than you remember, just a somewhat different experience.