I still have an old Pentium-class machine that I boot up every once in awhile.
I think it has an AMD CPU instead of Intel, but don't remember for sure. Last
time I booted it up was probably 6 months ago. The problem with older computers
usually isn't the electronic parts (CPU's and RAM) but rather with the
mechanical and heat-generating parts (disk drives, power supplies, and monitors
-- especially CRT monitors). That may be why my Pentium-class machine still
works -- I rarely even boot it up so the hard drive doesn't spin very much.
Your question reminds me of one of my old friends, back in the days before
486's had even come out and all the hubbub was on the differences between 386DX
and 386SX. He was a contractor doing some work for a large waste disposal
company who had a contract with local law enforcement to incinerate "illegal"
things that had been confiscated. The waste disposal company had an autoclave
to do the incinerating, and needed a computer setup to automate and monitor the
process to guarantee everything worked like it was supposed to. My friend's
job was to help the waste disposal set up a computer to do that. Instead of
using a "new" computer (with a 386 processor), he chose to use an older XT
clone (with an 8088 processor). His reasoning when I asked? "An XT is the
kind of computer that won't die all by itself. You have to kill it on purpose."
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