There is an enormous market for use-able parts for such systems, and those are quite easy to ship, and can be very profitable. If you are not afraid to ship worldwide, you will find there are countless users of outdated equipment, whose business and livelihood relies on finding parts to keep those systems running. The best way to find if there is any market for a part is simply to list it, but not in just any way. Starting out use the ten day auction, starting it on a friday, for 2 weekends and a full week. This will not only give them time to find it, but give you a chance to determine an acceptable "buy-it-now" price (for later), I suggest initially sticking out the ten days in spite of buy it now offers, until you have determined a solid idea for the current market value. From there you can begin to not only have watchers for your listing of those things, but have a better knowledge of acceptable buy it now prices for each item.
I once had accumulated about 15-20 old SGI INDYs and decided to scale down my collection to one or two, so began parting them out on Ebay. There was not one part that didn't sell, NOT ONE PART, I emphasize this because even the small connecting cables were solely made for these machines. The only parts I didn't offer or ship were the heavy metal cases (which sold well at the local scrap yard ; ) One early (and longtime) customer of these parts was in Taiwan, and must have been running an entire network of them. His first shipment he opted for economy (ground) shipping, for which he (and I too) waited almost 8 weeks, as international ground shipping goes by ship, but was very happy when the order arrived, and opted on future purchases for more expedited, and more expensive, shipping. I'm not sure how many times I filled boxes for them with these parts. Before it was over, if there was a few ounces of weight under the next pound mark, I'd toss in simple extras, which they also greatly appreciated.
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