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I have an Olympus OM-3 and OM-2SP, and some lenses, sitting in a cupboard. I got rid of most of the OM lenses, including all the rare "cult" ones, within the last year after the spike in value/demand due to their popularity on mirrorless. The OM-3 is in working order and remains unsold after it proved to be a magnet for fraudulent buyers (three cheers to eBay for detecting the one who won and cancelling the sale before I shipped - and a big boo to all the pests who messaged me with ridiculous lowball offers - do you suppose I don't know how to search for completed auctions?).
The OM-2SP needs servicing and is really just sitting there in case values move and it becomes worth fixing. I regard this as the best 35mm SLR ever made, and my favourite of all I've owned, so I suppose there's some nostalgia/stubbornness involved. It's not as if I'll ever be using it again, since it lacks diopter adjustment.
Some of the OM kit got thrown out. There was an OM-4 that was far beyond economic repair, and various flash accessories that were stinky from a previous owner who smoked. I am quite unsentimental and believe that as long as a few copies of some piece exist in museums somewhere I have no responsibility to save my copy.
The Varimagni Finder is part of my Canon 5D kit, and the cable release part of my Sony RX-1 kit. The T-20 was going to be part of my Sony kit but it, too, smells funny, so isn't allowed to play with the "nice" gear area any more.
I do think we're living through the best era in camera design and there's very little reason to keep bodies made before ~2005, unless you want to shoot film. Lenses of course are different.
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