This will probably be the wierdest post yet and will definitely be the wierdest one Ive ever made.
Basically I have ALOT of computers and would love as anyone would to convert them to $$. I collect old computers mainly trs80's, ti's, apple, etc thats from the mid 80's or so on back. I use for my daily stuff in programming and such top of the line stuff mainly dual processor or more machines. What lays between these zones to me is stuff that I cant bring myself to get rid of as garbage but is stuff Ill never use and doesnt really fit my collecting interest.
But Ive got a delima and would like some opinions on how to handle it.
I dont feel the stuffs worth much in the money department but also Im an incredibly lazy person by nature
Its not hurting anything in storage but it really should have a home. Part of me feels guilty asking for money for the stuff but I think selling it for something is the only likelyhood Ill ever get off my case and get rid of the stuff. Bigest problem is I have no idea what to charge and dont want to rip people off but also I dont want to waste my gas and time moving it around from storage to the house and mailing it and all if its not going to at least bring enough money to be worth fooling with.
Well I think the best thing is to list some of it and maybe I can get some ideas on the best way to sell it as bundles or what and how much to charge and see if its worth fooling with.
200 - IBM compatible 486 dx33 with 300meg hard drives and (32 or 64meg ram), vga graphics, floppy drive fully working machines with windows 95 on them I think. Some had dos only I believe. All had token ring network cards. All tested, all worked. Took 3 days to test those things. Then ended up just storing em.
IBM PS/2 model 90 or 95 server cant remember which, has the digital display on the front of the case thats programable. SCSI drives, tape backup drive 10base T nic.
NCR 486 UNIX server with all the trimmings. SCSI drives, 500meg ram, loaded.
NCR system 3430 tower server, popular with banks even today. I think its a dual processor machine.
50 xt mfm controllers
24 xt rll controllers
114 ibm pc floppy drive controllers
90+ 8 bit printer port cards
20+ 8 bit combo serial and printer port cards
400 floppy drives ranging from ibm pc orginal belt drive models to 2.88 ibm pc drives
50+ 20 meg hard drives mfm
20 or so 40 and 60 meg mfm and rll hard drives
4 boxes of memory chips, heck if i know what all what fits.
2 boxes of expansion memory boards most fully populated ranging from extended to expanded cards. Several are those fancy deskview compatible ones for multitasking.
20+ 8 bit vga cards (rare from what ive seen)
10 or more 16 bit vga cards
1 box full of 8 bit sound cards
14 tandy model 1000 machines ranging from ex's to hx's etc
tandy model 2000 computer
nec notebook computer with red plasma screen
9 compaq lunchbox style computers with red plasma screens
enough keyboards to pave a major highway
even noticed one ibm pc jr keyboard and some accessories for it but didnt see an ibm pc jr itself in there anywhere but who knows.
FOUR as400 MONSTER machines. Reason I used caps and said monster is it took a fork lift to unload each of them
ok my head hurts thats all i can think of off the top of my head but that isnt near the amount I actually have.
Oh forgot the printers. Pretty much ya name it for an old printer and Ive got a few of them. Laser printers, dot matrix printers, inkjet (OLD inkjet) printers.
Oh and a TON of ps2 model ya name it computers.
I probably have one or more of every ps2 that ibm made.
So Im open to ideas on how to handle this.
Id like to make some money off some of it if possible and whoever buys covers the shipping and none of that inflated shipping either. Each thing would be weighed and Id let the person interested know what the cost would be before they would be committed to it. I can take pictures of the stuff working too. I had buying stuff not knowing if it works.
But I also want to get enough to be worth going thru all that for too.
Thanks for reading this long post and maybe this stuff can find a good home.
Basically I have ALOT of computers and would love as anyone would to convert them to $$. I collect old computers mainly trs80's, ti's, apple, etc thats from the mid 80's or so on back. I use for my daily stuff in programming and such top of the line stuff mainly dual processor or more machines. What lays between these zones to me is stuff that I cant bring myself to get rid of as garbage but is stuff Ill never use and doesnt really fit my collecting interest.
But Ive got a delima and would like some opinions on how to handle it.
I dont feel the stuffs worth much in the money department but also Im an incredibly lazy person by nature
Its not hurting anything in storage but it really should have a home. Part of me feels guilty asking for money for the stuff but I think selling it for something is the only likelyhood Ill ever get off my case and get rid of the stuff. Bigest problem is I have no idea what to charge and dont want to rip people off but also I dont want to waste my gas and time moving it around from storage to the house and mailing it and all if its not going to at least bring enough money to be worth fooling with.
Well I think the best thing is to list some of it and maybe I can get some ideas on the best way to sell it as bundles or what and how much to charge and see if its worth fooling with.
200 - IBM compatible 486 dx33 with 300meg hard drives and (32 or 64meg ram), vga graphics, floppy drive fully working machines with windows 95 on them I think. Some had dos only I believe. All had token ring network cards. All tested, all worked. Took 3 days to test those things. Then ended up just storing em.
IBM PS/2 model 90 or 95 server cant remember which, has the digital display on the front of the case thats programable. SCSI drives, tape backup drive 10base T nic.
NCR 486 UNIX server with all the trimmings. SCSI drives, 500meg ram, loaded.
NCR system 3430 tower server, popular with banks even today. I think its a dual processor machine.
50 xt mfm controllers
24 xt rll controllers
114 ibm pc floppy drive controllers
90+ 8 bit printer port cards
20+ 8 bit combo serial and printer port cards
400 floppy drives ranging from ibm pc orginal belt drive models to 2.88 ibm pc drives
50+ 20 meg hard drives mfm
20 or so 40 and 60 meg mfm and rll hard drives
4 boxes of memory chips, heck if i know what all what fits.
2 boxes of expansion memory boards most fully populated ranging from extended to expanded cards. Several are those fancy deskview compatible ones for multitasking.
20+ 8 bit vga cards (rare from what ive seen)
10 or more 16 bit vga cards
1 box full of 8 bit sound cards
14 tandy model 1000 machines ranging from ex's to hx's etc
tandy model 2000 computer
nec notebook computer with red plasma screen
9 compaq lunchbox style computers with red plasma screens
enough keyboards to pave a major highway
even noticed one ibm pc jr keyboard and some accessories for it but didnt see an ibm pc jr itself in there anywhere but who knows.
FOUR as400 MONSTER machines. Reason I used caps and said monster is it took a fork lift to unload each of them
ok my head hurts thats all i can think of off the top of my head but that isnt near the amount I actually have.
Oh forgot the printers. Pretty much ya name it for an old printer and Ive got a few of them. Laser printers, dot matrix printers, inkjet (OLD inkjet) printers.
Oh and a TON of ps2 model ya name it computers.
I probably have one or more of every ps2 that ibm made.
So Im open to ideas on how to handle this.
Id like to make some money off some of it if possible and whoever buys covers the shipping and none of that inflated shipping either. Each thing would be weighed and Id let the person interested know what the cost would be before they would be committed to it. I can take pictures of the stuff working too. I had buying stuff not knowing if it works.
But I also want to get enough to be worth going thru all that for too.
Thanks for reading this long post and maybe this stuff can find a good home.
