I had similar feelings when breaking down my family's old Gateway 2000 for scrap. That was the computer on which I started learning about how operating systems

I had similar feelings when breaking down my family's old Gateway 2000 for scrap. That was the computer on which I started learning about how operating systems work (or don't, if you delete system files to free up space). The experience from that computer and the Apple ][e that preceded it has really shaped my trajectory since then. PCI SCSI controllers are around and fairly cheap, looks like there are even some PCIe ones out there (not as cheap). I've never gotten as far as the software side of it though. I imagine one might create an image of the disk, and use it with Mini vMac, but I think I still need to figure out the SCSI setup. (I have a PCI SCSI card that I was attempting to use to interface with some tape drives-- different story.)