Just a few boards...from 1984

236 lbs of boards


48 of these milspec gold pinned connectors


48 Motherboards (ooooooooold)

Anywho, rather than harvest the ICs and EPROMS I sold the entire lot...the labor difference put me on the downside had I sat there and sorted out 336 boards and plucked ICs...

Well how did you get all of that goodness?

Tipped off on a local auction I bid on pallet 1 my competition through telepathy went for pallet 2...were both happy.

Well, how'd you do?

Wow, awesome job.

700 to the green overall including gas expenses

If there was "labor" involved lets call it minimum wage, overall it would have cost me about 350 bucks, these were labor intensive and I used power tools. My son and cousin helped all night long two nights in a row.

Bloody nice photos there Army.



Just sexy. Again I call for a SMF calender with all these great pictures in them!

Sirscrapalot - Make it so #1 - Capt. Picard? (Not a trekkie)

I've got a goodie coming up, finally the first burn project of the year.

What the heck did that stuff come from?? I can't figure it out. Just that there were 48 of them.

Anodized aluminum. The boards were zilco Z80 series processors and all the controller equipment for traffic lights. Basically what was required in 1984 that today would fit inside a stamp. Traffic Control Technologies LC8000s, 42 of those and LC80s 6 of those. A Zilco Z80 is a hell of a unit, 10Mhz processor with a draw of less than 2 watts and back then it required 8 megs of memory which meant those two big finger cards with black and yellow ICs, were 4MB memory cards, or 16 64KB chips and 4 EPROMS. The other cards were coprocessors and more EPROMS and then one solid state control card for outputs.

A forewarning, break down was ALL flat head screws of three different sizes, you have to deal with disposal of EXTRAlytic caps. I've got the connectors and caps still, a guy is coming to get the caps tomorrow (Friday) and I havent figured out who's getting the connectors.

Yup thats exactly where they came from.

Do you have an outlet for those blue capacitors in the bottom pic?

I'm planning to test all of them for capacitance and stability mark down their current specs right on the case and resell them. I do have an outlet for those that don't pass...though I won't get anything at all for them. At least they aren't old starting caps with PCBs

I buy pallets of these all the time I love the labor and the baords! I did get outbid last month on a pallet there was around 100 of them I stopped bidding at $250. Those screws your *****ing about are aluminum same with the brackets and most everything else.

Man, I'm going to have start bribing the CenturlyLink guys down here. They operate all those boxes. Heh.

Never any auctions near my sandbar, either out west toward Winston-Salem/Raleigh area or to far into Va to be worth it for me.

Sirscrapalot - Fortune favors the prepared mind. - Louis Pasteur