strollin
Experienced Member
I have been trying to sell my small collection. I have sold a number of items but still have the following:
IBM 5160 XT
IBM 5150 PC (earlier model with black power supply, 16-64K MB)
IBM 5150 PC (later model with silver PS, 64-256K MB)
IBM 5140 Convertible with attached printer and carry case
IBM 8573 P70 Portable
IBM 8573 P70 Portable
Compaq Portable I with padded carry case
Tandy TRS80 Model 100 (in original box)
Toshiba T3100 laptop (display is readable but has vertical stripes)
At one time all of these computers were working. I packed them up and stored them. Now as I am trying to sell them I pull them out of storage to fire them up and take pictures and such for potential buyers and almost every one of them has some kind of issue which causes me to put hours into troubleshooting them to figure out what the issue is. The last straw was today. A forum member had made an offer for my oldest 5150 PC and so I pulled it out and fired it up and it was working fine. I had the cover off to take pictures of the inside. I then re-installed the cover and now get a system board memory error at boot time. I spent a short time trying to determine which chip went bad but I decided that I don't want to invest any additional time into these vintage computers in order to sell them. I used to enjoy tinkering with them but I just don't anymore so I want them gone.
So here's the deal. Whomever shows up at my door with a truck to haul them away gets everything I have with the condition that you have to take it all. In addition to the computers listed above, I have boxes of cards, floppy disks, spare drives, 50 or so keyboards and other "stuff".
I'm not going to take any pictures, not going to attempt to power them up and I'm certainly not going to pack them for shipping. There is some good stuff and like I said, they were all working before being stored. As far as I know, half of them are still working. I'll leave the offer open for 2 weeks and, if no one comes to pick the stuff up, I will haul it to the recyclers. I hope someone comes and gets them because I'd rather not take them to the recyclers. Hopefully there's someone nearby that would love to tinker with these old computers and bring them back to life.
I live in the San Francisco Bay area of Northern California, about 30 miles south of San Jose.
IBM 5160 XT
IBM 5150 PC (earlier model with black power supply, 16-64K MB)
IBM 5150 PC (later model with silver PS, 64-256K MB)
IBM 5140 Convertible with attached printer and carry case
IBM 8573 P70 Portable
IBM 8573 P70 Portable
Compaq Portable I with padded carry case
Tandy TRS80 Model 100 (in original box)
Toshiba T3100 laptop (display is readable but has vertical stripes)
At one time all of these computers were working. I packed them up and stored them. Now as I am trying to sell them I pull them out of storage to fire them up and take pictures and such for potential buyers and almost every one of them has some kind of issue which causes me to put hours into troubleshooting them to figure out what the issue is. The last straw was today. A forum member had made an offer for my oldest 5150 PC and so I pulled it out and fired it up and it was working fine. I had the cover off to take pictures of the inside. I then re-installed the cover and now get a system board memory error at boot time. I spent a short time trying to determine which chip went bad but I decided that I don't want to invest any additional time into these vintage computers in order to sell them. I used to enjoy tinkering with them but I just don't anymore so I want them gone.
So here's the deal. Whomever shows up at my door with a truck to haul them away gets everything I have with the condition that you have to take it all. In addition to the computers listed above, I have boxes of cards, floppy disks, spare drives, 50 or so keyboards and other "stuff".
I'm not going to take any pictures, not going to attempt to power them up and I'm certainly not going to pack them for shipping. There is some good stuff and like I said, they were all working before being stored. As far as I know, half of them are still working. I'll leave the offer open for 2 weeks and, if no one comes to pick the stuff up, I will haul it to the recyclers. I hope someone comes and gets them because I'd rather not take them to the recyclers. Hopefully there's someone nearby that would love to tinker with these old computers and bring them back to life.
I live in the San Francisco Bay area of Northern California, about 30 miles south of San Jose.