I have an DEC VT320 terminal hooked to one of my Linux machines, and when I need to heads down, no distractions, pound out text, I pull it into a room without a computer (or TV) and close the door. It's a great way to block out distractions. George RR Martin famously writes his books in Wordstar on a DOS PC not connected to the Internet for similar reasons.
The big limiting factor with using a vintage computer for a daily driver is that very few of them have a browser that supports modern web standards, have relatively low resolution screens and are painfully slow doing modern crypto (TLS & SSH), so much of the modern internet is inaccessible or unusable.
The big limiting factor with using a vintage computer for a daily driver is that very few of them have a browser that supports modern web standards, have relatively low resolution screens and are painfully slow doing modern crypto (TLS & SSH), so much of the modern internet is inaccessible or unusable.