As someone who collects and restores old computers, I can tell you this is how they are preserved. Museums are only the final resting place of these machines, but, in the meantime, they are preserved by ordinary people in their own collections.
Until they are inherited by a confused youngster who puts dad's weird old trash on the kerb :(
Sometimes it's the other way around. I saved a Cromemco Z2D from the trash when the company where my father worked cleaned out their basement prior to moving to a different building.
This is how I got an Emmy statuette.
You!!! I NFT'd that, scanned it, and the original was meant to be destroyed, meant to be in the trash.
Now I'm being sued, after you put it on ebay! You have no right sir! None! You don't own the NFT!