I believe that the loss of the knowledge on how
to run these machines would
be more significant in the loss of access to data.
That is why simulators are so important. You can get most of the feel
of the machine from the comfort of your own home.
Every time I'be both seem an emulator of a chassic machine (runinng on a
friend's machine, obvious) and also run the rela hardware myself, I feel
the emultor doens't come close to the experinece of actually running the
classic computer.
Maybe that wil lchange, but I doubt it...
-tony