Things to acquire

Old crap

• Sony OEM PlayStation 2 SCART/YPbPr cable
• 3.5″ floppy drive (over USB or with a PCI(e) controller card)
• working (empty or able to be formatted) 3.5″ floppy disks (HD 1.44 MB)
• PS/2 keyboard (preferably good)
• mid/full tower ATX case that has both a 5.25″ and a 3.5″ bay, preferably multiple
• Windows XP
• decent LGA-2011 cooler
• wired (USB) Xbox 360 controller
• a set of 90s computer speakers

Daily computing

• a good keyboard, especially
  • Apple Extended Keyboard
  • Dell AT102w
• MMO mouse
• Logitech RX-250
• 3.5″ SATA hard disk
• LGA 1155 motherboard
• mid/full tower ATX case that has both a 5.25″ and a 3.5″ bay, preferably multiple
• SATA DVD drive
• second SATA DVD drive
• NAS or NAS-esque computer
• non-terrible printer & scanner
  • check for driver support
• PCI-e Wi-Fi card
• internal floppy drive connectable to a modern machine

Digitization/creation

• S-VHS player that has a Y/C out (i.e. S-video) (standalone, not through SCART) OR a SCART upscaler with timebase correction or a robust framebuffer
• MIDI interface
• non-terrible HDMI capture device

Hi-Fi

• radio receiver
• CD player
• a good pair of speakers
• label protectors for washing vinyl records
• cassette adapter
• cassette rack
• more CD shelving
  • still more CD shelving
• a decent, portable Bluetooth speaker system

Tools

• soldering stand (PCB holder)
• electric duster
• stapler
  • staples FFS
• offset screwdriver Philips 1
• 3D printer

Furniture

• an office shelf/cabinet with a door