I'm waiting on a keyboard and mouse, but I can start building now.
You can see the build at PCPartPicker.
I had a target budget of $5,000. That's based on the cost of an Apple II+ floppy disk drive, in 1981. I know this because I helped the science teacher, Mr. Norman Dria assemble the computer after school, and I got to see the invoice. He had received a grant for $25,000, with which he bought the latest in home computers, the Apple II+, along with a pair of 5-1/4" floppy disk drives, a color monitor (15 colors!), and extra RAM to bring the total to 48k. Yes, that's right "k". A WHOPPING 49,152 bytes. If good old Mr. Dria could spend 25k on a computer back then, I could afford 5k now. After all, I won't be buying a Tesla for my birthday. After seeing what an idiot Elon Musk is, and how badly he wants to own the libs, why would I give him my money?
In case you're wondering what a 5-1/4" floppy disk drive from 1981 looks like....
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