I hear you, comrade, this is something like the third time that the wheel of life has landed me back at the 68kMLA! The first time around, I collected the '030 and '040 machines of my early nineties dreams.
Later on it was PowerBooks that I'd never been able to afford, along with a few more of the MicroQuadras, some NuBus PPCs and my beloved Radius Clone!
This time around I'm into almost anything, but most especially, I'm building the fastest setup I can for running all my licensed OS 9 software and interfacing it to all the peripherals I could never have afforded around Y2K. Like my Nikon CoolScan, the as yet untested, ScanMaker 4, a wireless KBD-n-Mouse coupled with the amazing multi-platform KVM rig I'd set up back in the day.
I never had much use for "PixelPlay" in the past, but I'm starting to explore all the possibilities. It's so nice to buy inexpensive playtoys out of love and curiosity as a hobby, rather than have to justify expenditures on a "bang for the buck/productivity/software availability/compatibility" basis as was ALWAYS the case for me in the past.
Luckily, my business was Mac-Centric, with some homebrew/garage level PC clones thrown in to add a little . . . erm . . . spice (more like vinegar actually) into the mix.
It really is "a wonderful life!"
peace,