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I recently got hold of an old IBM computer that had quite a few gold bearing cards. A processor card with 7 processors. A I/O controller and a couple of others should I be throwing these in with my other scrap mother boards? I currently get £5.30 a kilo but wasn't sure if they were worth more. Can anyone help?
First check ebay for sold items. I have found that the IBM material sells where the clone materal doesn't. Spend more time reading the old threads in the electronics section before you tear down things that may have far more than scrap value. Mike.
Thanks for the reply.Quote:
Originally Posted by miked
I took the PC apart because the case was broke and 2 of the processors had been dislodged. Ebay isn't always ideal as i can't always identify the parts not to mention the fact its more time consuming than throwing it in a pile :D I will post a link of some pics anyway as these will all go to the refiner who buys our stock. I'd just like to know if they have a scrap value higher than what i stated earlier, £5.30 p/kg. That's around $3.75 a pound
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I haven't removed the RAM on the second image but i was curious as to what was in the big silver squares on the board. I would also remove the processors but have no idea on a value for these as i have never seen ones like this before.
Looks like a PS/2 era server of some kind, that model is on the case?
The case was badly damaged, i pulled the computer from our frag feed.Quote:
Originally Posted by unknownk
here's the scsi card on ebay IBM 31G9729 RISC I O SCSI Controller Card | eBay
I was thinking it was an AIX RISC machine, they are rare these days but probably not that collectable (judging from the amount of posts in the ps2 newsgroup). Should go for a few bucks as scrap I guess.
I need to take the time to do this too, I have an old IBM 5150 sitting on the bench, everything works. I would like like to get some old disks to try in it before to test the floppy drives.Quote:
Originally Posted by miked
My problem is I only have DOS disks on 3-1/2 and HD-5-1/4 disks. These old things only read the 360 or 720 disks I think.
Untested, just found it today sitting by the trashcans in an alley where someone's moving out. I'm not messing with ebay, and I have no way to test any parts. Anyone here buy untested floppy drives?
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Do you have the case top as well? If so PM me
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Originally Posted by auminer
It's on its way to its new Ohio home. I'm stoked it's going somewhere it'll be loved & appreciated for its attributes & utility vice its scrap value. I probably coulda got more absolute $$$ elsewhere, but the satisfaction of knowing it'll be loved is worth something.
id part it out, the floppies are about $30 each, hard drive probably around $40, motherboard around $50
I was robbed, then. But I'm OK with that in this case. :p
well you found a good home for it and did better than scrap, its a win-win