old/Vintage hardware.

getmore4less

Is there any demand for old PC kit,

I have 486 & socket 3 pentium/celerons

also what about PS1 stuff.

I really need to start clearing out, oldest stuff first

if I can make a bit all well and good

If there is a hobby demand that will be fine, I can try frecycle localy

Else it's down the tip.

Ximian

I don't think there is a huge demand for old equipment. There might be someone out there that might need parts for an old system, eBay might be worth a shot to sell a complete working system or parts. I had two old CRT monitors that I was thinking of selling on eBay but when I factored in the delivery charge it just wasn't worth the hassle. In the end I gave them away to a friend that repairs PC's. I guess the lesson is to never hold on for too long when it come to PC equipment, in 7 years time most of it will be obsolete :cool:

vuvuzela

I would suggest looking at completed items on ebay for the processors etc you have. Prepare to be mildly disappointed by the pennies they reach
Although having said that, some PS1 games (albeit rare ones) are worth a few quid.

LincolnshireYokel

Yes i agree, old hardware is scrap, unless you have something rare like a prototype Ipad 1. Old software is slightly valuable, some people like to play old games.

getmore4less

thanks,

as I expected not worth the hastle to test the stuff for selling.

Found a local game hobbyist that took the dos games for a 486 he had resurrected.

The 540meg drive might have been worth something but it died completely trying to format it.


videos and audio cassetes are next on the list.


frecycle and tip I think.

WhiteChristmas

getmore4less wrote: »

The 540meg drive might have been worth something

Blimey. Win95 was the last Microsoft OS you'd have fitted on that (98 at a push). It might've had value as a missile at the next riots...

LincolnshireYokel

Do you remember the Amstrad 1512? A whole 640k of ram and a whopping 20 Mb hard drive!!! I remember the hard drives well, Amstrad tried making there own at first, they would run so hot the plastic on the front would go soft and you could leave your thumbprint in it. Eventually, after about three months daily use, the bearings would give way, melt and the drive would die.

Amstrad eventually gave up and started putting Seagate and Maxtor drives in, but the Seagate drives used to expand and contract with the heat, and as they got older you found if you had formatted when it was cold you would start getting read errors as it warmed up, or if you formatted when it was hot, it wouldn't boot when it was cold. Fabulous.............

patman99

Pentium/celeron kit has its uses. Hardware firewall with DSL and DansGaurdian on with 2 LAN cards (one to take incoming internet, second to link to the router). Or as a network printer server.

mikey72

LincolnshireYokel wrote: »

Do you remember the Amstrad 1512? A whole 640k of ram and a whopping 20 Mb hard drive!!! I remember the hard drives well, Amstrad tried making there own at first, they would run so hot the plastic on the front would go soft and you could leave your thumbprint in it. Eventually, after about three months daily use, the bearings would give way, melt and the drive would die.

Amstrad eventually gave up and started putting Seagate and Maxtor drives in, but the Seagate drives used to expand and contract with the heat, and as they got older you found if you had formatted when it was cold you would start getting read errors as it warmed up, or if you formatted when it was hot, it wouldn't boot when it was cold. Fabulous.............

Hard drive? My first one had two 5 1/4" drives.

Figment

*sigh*

My first was a Sinclair ZX-80 attached to a cassette recorder which was meant to be the storage device. Damn thing always bombed out during save operations.

LincolnshireYokel

Figment wrote: »

*sigh*

My first was a Sinclair ZX-80 attached to a cassette recorder which was meant to be the storage device. Damn thing always bombed out during save operations.

AH yes, i remember. it had 1k basic RAM, if you wrote a program longer than 300 bytes it would start robbing the screen of memory and the display would get smaller and smaller, there was a bit of a competition as to who could write the largest program and still get a usable display.

Then they invented a 16 kb RAM pack that plugged in the back, it would rock and wobble and thing would crash. The official modification to prevent this was a bloody great gob of Blu-Tac to stick the body of the ram pack to the back of the ZX81.

Another one round at the time was the DRAGON 32. I remember learning how to write BASIC on one. I was into Dungeons and Dragons at the time ( one of the first peopel to play it in the UK), and I wrote a character generator program, and then I wrote a battle calculator that would predict melee results based on average dice rolls, it was so good at predicting i set up a battle in one game so well balanced after 5 hours dice rolling there was one orc with 3 HP and one player character with 5 HP still standing, and the player made the last roll and killed the orc.