Why is it...

...that I can't use a computer created in 1982 and write better code than if I was coding on a computer created in 2011?  Violinists do it all the time.  My violin is from 1742...it's a Gauadagnini (isn't that Voldemort's snake?)...it's worth a million dollars. If this just held true across fields, I could be coding enterprise masterpieces on a Vic 20 with a tape drive.  Tempting.