Finding the hardware may be the easy part. You'll also need a DOS boot disk, and a LISA compiler. I fired up my Apple ][ recently and was amazed it still worke

Finding the hardware may be the easy part. You'll also need a DOS boot disk, and a LISA compiler. I fired up my Apple ][ recently and was amazed it still worked -- those floppy disks are amazingly durable. 30+ years of sitting in a footlocker and yet they're still readable. Amazing! There is no substitute for the charm of a flickering greenscreen monitor, the whirr of a 5.25" disc drive, 40 columns of text, a clacky keyboard, and the smell of dust burning off the power supply. Yet I found myself asking "how did I get anything done with such primitive machines?"