Everything has to be new or it doesn't work.

Just a moment ago, my dad was searching for some games that he used to play on my laptop. Well, I helped him find them, and he tried some of them. One of his Blackjack games that he got from the College of Dupage computer show didn't work anymore. Something about it being incompatible with Windows 7. He also tried connecting a bunch of old mice that we had lying around to it, and none of them worked because apparently there isn't a serial port or anything like that. It seems like everything has to be new or it doesn't work. It's wasteful, actually, I have a bunch of old mice sitting around, and they're perfectly good. My Toshiba laptop would agree to that. But all of them have no machine to attach to. Maybe if I buy an old EGA computer or something, maybe I could get some use out of them. And there it is again, I need an EGA computer that's slow to play some of the older games that I have. I have this game called "Perestroika", which is named after the Democratic restructuring of Russia, made by Locus games. All the newer computers I have run it too fast, if at all, and my old CGA Tandy can't process the graphics, and is too slow to run it as well. Again, everything has to be new or it doesn't work. Isn't it possible to make newer machines compatible with old technology? We're losing something valuable if we don't!