Is the retro pc bubble over? Is it finally time to sell off my stuff? I got 3 boxes of old computer parts back when people were giving stuff away for free. I only have a windows 98 and windows 3.1 machine left and a Mac g3
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Keyboards
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Nobody wants your no name floppy drive from 1997
Stuff from the 80s is worth flipping. As for 90s gear it needs to be from a big brand like Mac or IBM.
Old keyboards are probably the valuable thing out there because mechanical keyboard nerds are weird like that.
>Nobody wants your no name floppy drive from 1997
If it works I'll take it
Only stuff that's valuable is stuff that's vanishing like most stuff from the 80's; the golden age of 8 and 16 bit, 386/486 stuff, maybe a PDP.
Stuff from the 90's that are valuable are exotic stuff like early RISC architectures like SPARC, PA-RISC, DEC Alpha, MIPS, i960, AM29000. Everything else is kind of COTS junk that are clogging up the used market.
I don’t have any of that, probably the most valuable stuff is old mac keyboard and hardware and maybe some 386 era ram chips
I used to keep all this around as a just-in-case situation, like if someone gave me a computer with no HD, or no sound card etc I could workbench it back to life quickly but I just don’t come across old stuff like i used to 15 years ago
Dump them in the river.
Drop me in the water
You're supposed to sell during the bubble if you want to scam people
>selling during a bubble
Sir, you seem to be in the wrong place.
>puts sensitive PCBs on fluffy carpet
>"is it over?"
Now it probably is.
bro those serial and usb header connectors are $1 on ali, bought some the other day to use
thats not retro shit, chuck it out or use it
This is your one way ticket to early retirement son, dont listen to haters, you know what you've got
I was trying to get an Amiga, but they're borderline impossible to get and overpriced.
I have an A500, A600 and an A1200 in the loft.
I had a shit load of this stuff including cables that were irreplaceable. My wife and my daughter had a spring clean and threw them out. I still bring the incident up with the wife after she's hit me to make her feel bad but she just laughs and says she'll hit me again if I don't shut up.
I thought the only retro 'tech' in demand were old games consoles. Old PC parts are nowhere near as desirable apart from a few exceptions.
These guys are doing it wrong. It's about how to take care of them and display them. If you just have a bunch of old yellowed shit collecting dust in your garage then no one cares. If you actually take the time to restore things and present them like someone who's in full use of their mental faculties then you earn respect and have a talking piece
Nice
where are the compaqs?
This kind of shit is cool but it takes up waaaay too much space
Get rid of the funko pops
nice
amazing. I recently got a IBM XT keyboard
I need 80 threads cables for my xbox
the bonk you have is stable and pretty non hazard, why would you sell them
whoever put all those parts on the carpet should know better
The person who did it has been forcibly terminated and no longer exists