"Perhaps each station has its own attuned service droids - or they all run fundamentally the same programming, with some modifications."

Without any way of reading up on the mindset of the people who lived here, the only methods available to them were variants of trial-and-error.

"But, if we were to install this memory chip into another computer - perhaps that would be of some use?"

He's not suggesting running it himself; he's no droid, and he knows it! But it's something to consider all the same.