sombunall
Experienced Member
Vintage and Obsolete computers / parts for sale (2 lots)
Location: Saint Hubert, QC, Canada.
This ad has been posted elsewhere.
*everything is AS-IS*
NO SHIPPING - PICKUP ONLY. NO TRADES. NO SPLITS. CASH ONLY.
Vintage is considered to be at least 25 years old by vintage-computer.com. When possible I have gone by the date of manufacture but for some unmarked items I went by the date that technology was first introduced.
Most parts have been pulled by me from a working system some time in the past and stored in a temperature and humidity controlled basement since then. Parts that are known bad are marked as such in the lot lists.
Some disks will need to be reformatted (do not assume they are bad). Some 720K 3.5" disks have been drilled and re-taped. They were used during the time when people thought 720K were exactly the same as 1.44M and were trying to increase the capacity. I do not recommend removing the tape as the magetic density is different and will corrupt data when the disks are written to. There are about 15 or so 720K floppies like this out of the 47 in the list.
Some items have been included that are not in the lists. For example the keyboard for the XT has many missing keys but other than that is a very good one with great tactile feel.
In the obsolete lot there are 2 16 bit soundcards with wavetable on them. I highlight this because some people like using these cards as they work better in DOS than PCI cards. They are around year 1994 which is not vintage yet.
Check back for price drops coming about every week!
Lot 1 vintage is $950
Lot 2 obsolete is $170
The link to the list is http://partsforsale.codeicepick.com
Some pictures (mostly just the drives and in an unsorted order. One is of an 8-bit floppy controller):
The XT in this sale has had a reset button added:
http://www.vcfed.org/forum/showthread.php?19753-XT-reset-switch-hack&highlight=
Location: Saint Hubert, QC, Canada.
This ad has been posted elsewhere.
*everything is AS-IS*
NO SHIPPING - PICKUP ONLY. NO TRADES. NO SPLITS. CASH ONLY.
Vintage is considered to be at least 25 years old by vintage-computer.com. When possible I have gone by the date of manufacture but for some unmarked items I went by the date that technology was first introduced.
Most parts have been pulled by me from a working system some time in the past and stored in a temperature and humidity controlled basement since then. Parts that are known bad are marked as such in the lot lists.
Some disks will need to be reformatted (do not assume they are bad). Some 720K 3.5" disks have been drilled and re-taped. They were used during the time when people thought 720K were exactly the same as 1.44M and were trying to increase the capacity. I do not recommend removing the tape as the magetic density is different and will corrupt data when the disks are written to. There are about 15 or so 720K floppies like this out of the 47 in the list.
Some items have been included that are not in the lists. For example the keyboard for the XT has many missing keys but other than that is a very good one with great tactile feel.
In the obsolete lot there are 2 16 bit soundcards with wavetable on them. I highlight this because some people like using these cards as they work better in DOS than PCI cards. They are around year 1994 which is not vintage yet.
Check back for price drops coming about every week!
Lot 1 vintage is $950
Lot 2 obsolete is $170
The link to the list is http://partsforsale.codeicepick.com
Some pictures (mostly just the drives and in an unsorted order. One is of an 8-bit floppy controller):
The XT in this sale has had a reset button added:
http://www.vcfed.org/forum/showthread.php?19753-XT-reset-switch-hack&highlight=
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