Linked by Will Senn on Wed 23rd Mar 2005 20:31 UTC
It was with a sense of anticipation that I opened the book, "Apple I Replica Creation: Back to the Garage", by Tom Owad. Being a recent 'switcher' from Windows to Mac, the idea of building a first generation Apple to go with my cutting edge machines had the engineer in me pretty jazzed. 
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Well I wouldn't want to go so far back as a 6502 anything, but if someone ever does a 68K retro Mac (I have 4 oldies & roms) that would be a neat HW project. Or even the much underrated but slowish 9900, not the TI pc, but the whole world of industrial/embedded stuff it was seriously used for.
Right now HW design has gotten to be right on the edge of barely being doable by even an advanced hobhyist/EE with todays latest FPGAs having speeds far beyond table top equipment, BGAs having invisible connects, highly stacked boards for signal integrity, too serious.
I do miss wirewrapping boards just a little and knowing it would just work, today its gotten so abstract.
Still a small readymade FPGA board (Xess, Digilent etc) with onboard video, PS2, serial, headers, DRAM/SRAM can easily be used to build any retro HW from <10yrs ago. FPGA4fun has lots of these wonderfull little projects too.