what happen? ISA cards (sound cards, VGA, some I/O cards that are a necessary for a 386 PC) have insane prices, 30+ euro a piece
not to mention a whole working 386/486 could be easily 100+ euro, its a tower machine in AT format
I remember when in 2003 I could carry such stuff home for free or pay 20 euro at tops when taking them into my possession, the parts were from 1989 to 1996, those were deemed worthless in 2003
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If you have source for cheap parts, just start making money.
I dont, they have all been sold in 2015 or something
Sucks to be you then, as there are no oversupply for these cards anymore. Same deal with CRT monitors/TVs.
Thank all the retrohomosexuals and redditor friendly basedtubers for driving up the prices of these parts.
Limited supply since it's useless obsolete garbage so most of it got thrown away, and now the little that's left is fought over by morons for 'muh retro blah blah'.
Russians buying in numbers.
wtf are they doing with it
Building suicide drones or using for rocket guidance? I imagine many of the old microchips can be desoldered and repurposed. The drones would be sending analog video instead of 4K digital of course
Most of this shit got melted down for the gold. What's left is being bought up by cooomlectors, retroomers, demo sceners, etc.
THIS CPU was a gold mine
Each Pentium Pro CPU contained 33 grams of pure gold
HOWEVER you need to melt the CPU and use gold refining techniques with quicksilver and tungsten steel vats to get the gold extracted as pure
The gold innit is worth 2500 monies.
But it will cost 1500 monies to recapture the gold from the CPU..
Practically you would need more than one CPU to throw into the vat for gold extraction, process takes hours. Otherwise you dont gain much from it.
UNLESS you own such gold extractor devices by yourself already. I doubt you do though.
>UNLESS you own such gold extractor devices
device? nah. it's not difficult to extract and purify gold using acids. anyone could do it very cheaply. just toxic as frick, not recommended for potential darwin award winners. the biggest problem is usually selling it as gold israelites will try and not give you 1:1 on current price.
Gold recycling was always moronic
It costs more to squeeze gold out of these things than you get back in capital.
Lgr built a 486 and now everyone wants one.
It is low-level money laundering for drug money. ISA has been dead for a decade+. Not even legacy industrial stuff has it.
millennials are collecting PC parts like boomers did to stamps, China or whatever garbage they collect that they proport to have value because "they don't make them like they used too"
They justify it has value over any other garbage collecting hobby because of daydreaming about being in the plot of steins;gate and being the superhero with that one piece of ancient esoteric hardware that's supposed to save the world
I like to collect best possible audio gear from 1979 because I can listen to 2020s songs with them, I dont have to listen to 70s stuff
Honestly there is nothing wrong with that.
I see more rationale with boomers and their muscle cars even as stupidly overvalued as they are, purely on the basis they are drivable.
Nah, it is just a vocal minority that doing it for collectables. Most millennials and zoomers simply don't care and have moved on.
Some cards are hard to find still working
no one wants or needs it except the autists who really do and the supply is probably low so you might as well hike up the prices
When it's old it's not worth much. When it's really old you get to charge a premium.
Because morons like you waste your time building old junk. There's not enough supply and more demand from morons like you op. I sold a 386dx cpu the other day for $250 usd. Fricking sold bro. Enjoy Windows 3.1 I guess.
I don't even know if it worked. It was my childhood CPU from my 3rd or 4th computer. First Internet machine. I watched a lot of porn in 256colors. It was sitting in my desk drawer.