That stuff doen't do it for me either. S-100 and CPM rules! LOL. Most of my collection that could be considered worth anything at all are my pre 1980 computers. I also have every issue of Byte magazine from the 70s.
And also every issue of a couple of other periodicals too ;^)
Ah! There's one article from Byte that I wish I could find someday. It was a 3-parter I think, called "The Brains [or Minds?] of Men and Machines". Its explanation of how the neuron works made me understand why our brains are able to pack so much power into such a small space: Each neuron may output only one bit, but it's a bitstream that encodes the equivalent of a floating point number in the frequency of its pulse train. What an elegant solution! I think it also described how the eyes vibrate back & forth about 10 times a second, and thereby detect & transmit the edges of light & dark areas instead of having to transmit the whole, uncompressed image.
Come to think of it, that article helped seal the notion that there was no need to invoke any kind of magic to explain the mind. So in that sense it was part of the Vast Atheistic Materialist Conspiracy of Science, which helped to corrupt at least one college-age youth!