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i a ready took apart the towers put everthing in a different pile an plus found 2 boxes of brand new pci cards new but old 1997 i have space i also have the monitors printers keyboards havent touch them yet
my question is do i cut the fingers off everything or just sell the cards with the fingers ?
do i cut all the electric cords off but they dont look like copper? more like silver type of metal ?
computers from 89-95? brand new pci cards from 97? what kind of pci cards? do you know anything about them ? did you even look? 15 computer years is about like 15 dog years.
too bad you didn't take care of the monitors and keyboards first, which you'd been better off trashin than the boards and pc's. my question is who's fingers did you want to cut
Erik have you read any of our posts?? Here would be a good place for you to start reading;
Electronics Recycling
I wouldn't be cutting anything till you find a buyer you like the looks of and find out how they want you to do them.
Scrap Buyers & Sellers
Good haul Erik! Follow mech's advice and read. I wouldn't be cutting ANY thing. You might get more than scrap value out of the cards. But it all depends on what they are. Do your research. Depending on what kind of cards (modem, Video, NIC) you may have to sit on them until you find a buyer
am mot tryin to sell them yet i want to get more. the computers are old almost all the chips i took out from them were i486 intel ceramic an the 2 boxes that i found in my work are pci cards for game ports an printer ports i weight them an it came out to 41 lb but i have small box an there not pci cards the look like small cards that go inside the tower like if you connected an extra hard drive to it (is the small square in the pic ) i took a picture so u can see it thttp://i1202.photobucket.com/albums/...913_122743.jpg
Hey Erick, see if you can find a brand name and a number on the board, put those into a google search, along with "ebay" in the search. See if any are listed there. If you get there and it's just to a single listing, put the name and numbers into an ebay search(make sure it's set to search in "all categories") Once you find a list of that boards postings, go down the left side of the page to the "completed listings" and click that. On the completed listings look for the ended price in green, those are the ones that sold.
Also, if it doesn't show/isn't listed on ebay, either they aren't many in circulation/demand, or you have the only one left in the world, from there try a www search to see what you can learn of it there
I can't see the connectors on them, but top left looks like a serial/printer port, top right like an early graphics card, not sure about the bottom one
You can strip those down and sell them at mere scrap prices, or do some searching and possibly profit a good bit more, it just depends on the interest you have in it and the time/effort you care to invest
The one on the bottom would probably go for motherboard grade.
Those are ISA slot cards not PCI slot cards. They look like Printer or Com port cards.
Nice find on the 486 CPU's
Ahhh! I see Adaptec on that lower board, think it might be an SCSI controller card. You'll definitely want to check those for vintage prices
bear yea i think is a SCSI controller card but i cant find no info on it i check on ebay nothing found
You might consider joining the vintage computer forum and asking about it there Eric. If you do ebay just post it there and see how it does, might be pleasantly surprised. Can you post the numbers from it here? You might even find some info on it from the adaptec website
Silver coloured copper wire is 'tinned copper wire'.
Or "silver-plated copper wire". Aviation, sea vessels, military, etc use a lot of silver plated copper for high temp applications. An example of military silver plated wiring would be M22759/11-10-9. The 10 is the guage, 9 wld be color, and /11 signifies silver amongst other things. M22759 is the spec & covers many types of wire both silver & tin plated. You won't see silver in any applications where there is direct contact with salt water as silver does not handle salt well.Quote:
Originally Posted by eesakiwi