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Yes if there was a really great museum I trusted this might be something I'd consider. Here in Australia there's not much in the way of technology museums. There's Powerhouse, but I don't know if they would care much about such a collection.
Where in Australia are you? (Roughly)
What doesn't fit in there should belong to someone else's collection.
A significant problem I noticed after moving my collection out of storage after about three years is that there is quite a bit of damage to the systems - leaking batteries, failed capacitors etc. Selling will only make sense if the systems are working, so you should expect having to invest quite a lot of time and some money to repair the damaged machines (or sell them for parts, but then the prices will probably be s…
Yeah I'm concerned about the caps. Most of my machines are too old to have batteries.
But if money is not super-important, there is always https://www.homecomputermuseum.nl/
Or find a museum with nice people who know what they are doing and are looking for this. Gift or sell to them or borrow it to them (I don’t know the english word) like collectors do with paintings to museums. I have 1000s of vintage computers myself and different places are showing and keeping them. Right temperature etc and fixing them when broken and having many people who can see and try (some of) them. I kept 20…
https://www.nme.com/news/gaming-news/retro-game-museum-in-uk...
It would be great if collectors like you teamed up to recreate a new and even more exhaustive one.
There will be regrets about selling some things. But it’s possibly better to have those regrets to focus you on what you really wanted.
She had decided to donate the machines to those who would find a use for them, that being old co-workers and student organizations at nearby universities, the latter including me. Who would keep them running and in use instead of just collecting dust.
We actually have a guy who still uses an Amiga at his current job spitting out code and whatnot which is quite cool. :-)