You can't use ebay as a price guide, stuff there is rarely priced properly. As its been stated its hard to give away 486 motherboards. I hate to knock over everything you have going but its generally not worth anything unless there's something genuinely unique about it.
There exists entire stores on EBay with inventories of old equipment. It is my opinion that they list everything they can with a very high price on the chance that someone somewhere needs that exact board for replacement in an existing commercial system. If I had that board in a live server that could not be replaced, $150 is not too much. I don't and I suspect not many do.You can't use ebay as a price guide, stuff there is rarely priced properly. As its been stated its hard to give away 486 motherboards.
kb2syd said:It is my opinion that they list everything they can with a very high price on the chance that someone somewhere needs that exact board for replacement in an existing commercial system. If I had that board in a live server that could not be replaced, $150 is not too much. I don't and I suspect not many do.
There exists entire stores on EBay with inventories of old equipment. It is my opinion that they list everything they can with a very high price on the chance that someone somewhere needs that exact board for replacement in an existing commercial system. If I had that board in a live server that could not be replaced, $150 is not too much. I don't and I suspect not many do.
Unless that is the model you're willing to develop then the best you can hope for is to list it on the site's FREE marketplace and let it either bid up or sell for a small monetary amount.
See http://marketplace.vintage-computer.com/ for the vintage computer marketplace.
Here's one that sold on ebay for $185.52, however the rest of those being sold are in the $30.00 to $50.00 range.
Motherboard OPTI-495SLC 386 486 VLB 386DX-40 High-End
Item number: 140136839073
They're also banking on the notion that someone might interpret the wrong decimal place and hit Buy It Now before realizing their mistake. :twisted:
One should never gauge prices based on "listed" prices on eBay. Best bet is to search for completed listings that ended in a sale, and go from there. Preferably ones that started with really low bids (say, 99 cents), and ended up with a bidding war.
Those are rare, but a 386 does not run well with a VLB bus.
It doesn't? I still have one such system complete with VLB SCSI and video. It was my main development system for several years; even runs OS/2 Warp and Linux just fine.
Exactly what about a 386 doesn't work with a VLB? I must have missed it. :shock:
I said it didn't work well. From what others with the systems have said, the VLB bus slows down the CPU a bit and the cards themselves run slower then they would on a 486 system.
VLB was clocked at the external CPU clock. A lot of systems used 33 Mhz clocks, and that's what the VLB ran at, and that's what a lot of cards ran at. You could find cards that would be stable at 40 Mhz, and a few that would run at 50Mhz, although 50 Mhz is out-of-spec for VLB. Since the VLB's LCLK ran at system clock, if you overclocked your board, the VLB would follow.Unknown_K said...the VLB bus slows down the CPU a bit