It sounds like these are homemade collections of software, not off-the-shelf store-bought stuff.
If I’m right, then this is the real gem of your collection, not the hardware. That hardware is much easier to come by than homemade, personal collections of disks. In fact, such collections are exceedingly rare and very expensive if you can find them at all. Sellers will often break a collection and sell one disk at a time for crazy prices like $10-20 each, without even knowing if the disk works.
I sincerely regret selling my collection about 15 years ago. I don’t regret selling the hardware.
This. Please image those disks. You may find you have something that has not been backed up to the Internet until now. Pretty sure I had at least one C64 demo that I have yet to be able to find online in over 20 years of looking.
It sounds like these are homemade collections of software, not off-the-shelf store-bought stuff.
If I’m right, then this is the real gem of your collection, not the hardware. That hardware is much easier to come by than homemade, personal collections of disks. In fact, such collections are exceedingly rare and very expensive if you can find them at all. Sellers will often break a collection and sell one disk at a time for crazy prices like $10-20 each, without even knowing if the disk works.
I sincerely regret selling my collection about 15 years ago. I don’t regret selling the hardware.