Why can't I see all of my backups on Time Capsule?

My Time Capsule is full, and I'm trying to do some maintenance.
I have an old backup on there from an old computer, but I can't see it when I use finder.  Very old Macs can see the sparse bundles when I browse over, but new Macs only see backups for themselves.
1) How can I see all of the backup bundles on a newer Mac?
2) How can I safely delete backup bundles I no longer need?
Finally, when I activate Time Machine I only see backups on my machine going back 1 month.  But when I browse over to the Time Capsule I see backups going back to 2011.  I suspect this problem is due to a migration I did back in April, or else an OS ugrade.
3) Why can't I see my backups before September 2013? 
  3a) Is there something I can use to get access to those backups?
   3b) if not, how can I safely delete the unusable backups?

There is a whole series of issues..
Look at Q5 here. http://pondini.org/TM/Time_Capsule.html
Look at Q12 and 17 here. http://pondini.org/TM/FAQ.html
It is common when the disk is full for TM to delete the old backups for your computer.. it cannot delete other backups for other computers.
This is done without warning now.
For older backup they can get very tricky.. See B3 here. http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html
A gen1 TC if that is what you are still using is liable to die at any moment. I recommend you archive off all the backups now.. simply plug in a USB drive the same size as the internal disk and select archive in airport utility.. it will take several hours to copy the whole disk.. and you cannot do backups in the meantime. Then erase the TC and start with clean fresh backups.. maybe also to a USB drive so when the TC dies you can just move it.

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