A typical Mac Plus was created by an engineer using present components.

It’s a Mac Classic, but the screen shows the output of the Mac Plus clone.
Apple sold the Mac Plus between 1986 and 1990. But now, this early classic Mac has returned with many of the parts manufactured in this century thanks to a dedicated fan. When someone tells you they built their own computer, you usually nod politely before changing the subject. It’s always a PC. They’re gamers, and they’ve assembled the components exactly as they were intended. It’s a bit fiddly and you could end up with a box of worthless electronics that’s smoked if you aren’t careful. It’s not the same as building a computer using individual chips and circuits. DosFox, a Mastodon user, sourced a bare mother board and painstakingly located or recreated all the ROM chips. He then built a working Mac Plus clone. DosFox wrote on Mastodon that the last Macintosh Plus was manufactured in 1990. This is the first Macintosh Plus to be released in 34 years. *IWM is not an issue, but I am working on it. IWM stands for the Integrated Woz Machine designed by Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak. It was his own controller for a floppy drive, because he could not afford to buy an existing one. DosFox needed to be able to handle such details, and to do so required an engineering background. DosFox is not saying much about the project yet, except that it works, and that old Mac software Timbuktoo, was required to prove it. Timbuktoo, which is a remote desktop application, was required because the video output of the Mac Plus clone is not working yet. DosFox had revealed the drive for this in a different sense. DosFox had built a clone Apple Lisa and said that the goal was to build a Mac. DosFox wrote on Mastodon that “theoretically, this project is older than the Lisa Project.” “I built the Lisa because I couldn’t make a Macintosh!” DosFox explained the reasons behind the creation of the Apple Lisa clone in detail. DosFox wrote, “Two main things.” “The first thing is that I have essentially accumulated every hardware iteration that Apple produced for the compact Macintosh.” A Mac Plus motherboard that has been painstakingly reconstructed. This collection includes a 128K Macintosh built in the 5th week of 1984, one week after the Macintosh had even been launched !).” DosFox, with the collection in mind and knowledge of all the components in them, “had an interest in building computers from scratch.” It is enough to say that most projects are focused on hardware, and therefore count getting the lights working, so to speak. DosFox continued, “I was insistent that any computer I built must have a great software library.” “I was determined to build a clone computer, a computer that came from Apple with a 68000 and GUI. I was determined to build a Macintosh.” Mastodon posts do not make it clear if DosFox housed the recreated Macintosh in a Mac Plus Case, as the Classic Case is only similar from the outside. Separately, it is now possible to 3D-print a classic Mac case for yourself. Sourcing the chips, recreating the hardware, and 3D-printing casings. That’s how you build a computer.