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Probably not authentic as getting a secondary monitor that's an old-school CRT and an an HDMI/DP/USB-C-to-VGA plug and sticking it right into an authentic CRT, but I'm on a laptop in a restaurant and can't screenshot that anyway.
You can still get the keyboard, too:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicomp
https://www.pckeyboard.com/
I have one of their Endura Pros at home, which is an old-school IBM buckling-spring keyboard. That has the IBM Trackpoint nipple mouse. The buckling spring keyswitches will last forever, as far as I can tell, but I wore out the mouse button keyswitches. They might have fixed that over the years, but I would probably just one without the Trackpoint if I got another.
If you have one of those and are typing away ("click ping! click ping! click ping!"), looking at a CRT, that's probably about as close as you get to the BBS era.
Probably a way to rig up simulated 9600 baud too.