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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 of them to play with which I had many doubles of anyway; MSX, c64, 2600, zx spectrum, Amiga and Atari st.

If you decide to sell; I am interested.

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The English word you were looking for is "lend"

I lend you the computer

You borrow the computer from me

There was this museum in the city of Mariupol that went destroyed.

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.

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)

Melbourne.

Check out ACMI in Fed Square. They have a section of the "story of the moving image" exhibition on the evolution of video games (https://www.acmi.net.au/story-of-the-moving-image/videogames...).

AFAIR it's not exactly "consoles in display cases" like at powerhouse, but they probably don't have the kit

  > Here in Australia there's not much in the way of technology museums.

It sounds like you live in one. Seriously, you say that you don't have the means to display the equipment, but maybe a university or non-technology museum might be happy to maintain a technology exhibit.

Try emailing some of the people at the Computer Museum in Mountain View and try to get them to pay for the cost of shipping.

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