I love this type of project. Unfortunately, our house was burglarized a couple of months ago and the thieves took a bunch of my vintage computer gear. I am sure that it got chucked in the garbage when they figured out it wasn’t modern equipment. They took an old Timex Sinclair 1000 and supporting peripherals, an old Atari 800 Computer with floppy disk drives and dozens and dozens of old discs and programs.
My TI99/4a computer along with its external expansion box will be missed. Also taken was a TRS-80 computer from Radio Shack along with peripherals. The largest volume of stuff missing was my collection of Commodore 64 items and software. Some of this gear actually goes for good money on eBay these days. I was hoping to play with some of this stuff again one day. Unfortunately, I do not have good documentation for my insurance company and they have not been very supportive.
I’m so sorry.
I hope not! Also sorry for your loss. As depicted in some movies, people often store old keepsakes in safes, that thieves believe to contain gold or jewels; one man's treasure is another's junk. Although I keep Apple vintage stuff, I thought a TRS-80 would be a nice addition. Have some Atari stuff. That video of the 1986 Mac Plus loading a page seems slow. I still have my 300 baud modem that I used with my Apple II; your eyes would glaze over watching the letters slowly paint on the screen to build a line when on Compuserve forums.
Damn. . . do you have a replacement value insurance policy? You might be surprised what you can get for what they stole.