This may just be old-mean-yells-at-cloud territory here but I really do think that code written 35 years ago has a better chance of compiling and running and actually working than code written 15 or 20 years ago. The code from 35 years ago probably just has one or two dependencies. The code from 15 years ago has 50 dependencies, two or three of which just outright no longer exist and another ten still "exist" but were abandoned without replacement.
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@wollman 35 year old code risks a different problem though - I've got plenty of 15+ year old firmware that requires an old version of gcc/binutils and /those/ don't compile on modern compilers.
I'd like modern written C code with modern C features, but many less dependencies. Many.
(And use make, not cmake. Cmake is nice until you have to build it, and it took a week to build on my SGI O2.)