These chess programs run on obsolete hardware.

We have way more letters, notes, ceramic pots, battlefields, recordings, old buildings and large pieces of obsolete military hardware than we can keep up with.

Legacy systems often run on obsolete (and usually slow) hardware, and spare parts for such computers may become increasingly difficult to obtain.

As with most old and obsolete hardware, however, recycling and discarding has made finding good working units difficult.

A popular entertainment use for virtualization is the emulation of obsolete hardware, especially older game consoles.

Still others go for what is known as emulation software, which allows a more advanced machine to mimic the obsolete hardware.

In the 1990s, the country scrapped enormous amounts of obsolete hardware, such as tanks and SAM systems from China.

Unless you have some crucial obsolete hardware or software that hasn't been updated in years it's really a no brainer.

Going backwards with a 32-bit version of Windows 8 to support what would then be obsolete hardware would make no sense.

Users can also remove hundreds of drivers aimed at obsolete hardware that slow down the normal install process.