People often make donations to public museums
or
There were founded many non-public museums in universities or
technical high schools
I personally collected Apples and Macs for dozends of years - of
course Lisas too!
Later I made donations (by giving away several Lisas) to two public
technical museums in southern germany and one museum for students
in a university.
I also sold Lisas to museums in switzerland or private collectors
in switzerland, italy, spain, hungary and netherlands.
To spread a collection is one way to keep them alive.
I tried this; I offered one of my Lisas to an Australian museum. In
the end, I got cold feet, because I realised that as a private
collector I could do much more useful historical work than the Museum
could (making videos for Marcin Wichary's site, for instance.
The Museum had recently moved into a very expensive but much smaller
building, and in the process had quietly "de-accessioned" some part
of its collection (I was told staff walked off with some items), they
had no serious plans to display historical computing gear properly,
and would merely put it in storage with its safety and future not
guaranteed. Better in private collectors' hands, as long as the
collector is committed and will give these vintage treasures the
respect they deserve.
--T
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