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I think its from an old tape drive but not sure. It looks like a CPU (loaded with gold pins) with heatsink attached but I don't think that's what it is. I just hooked up with an estate that has hundreds of old mainframes and tape drives from the 70's and 80's. I'll be cleaning it out over the next few months and will be selling much of it as scrap. I'll post pics of some of the cool stuff. I've never seen most of this equipment/boards before. Some of it is from the 60's.
I tried finding something using the numbers I see in the pic but came up with nothing. Any other numbers or letters may help.
That does look like a CPU. Try to find out more information about what it was is. May help figure out what it is. If it is a CPU and its pretty old then it may be worth a bit. Try to find out as much as you can about what it is that you are tearing apart to make sure that scrap is the best price you will get for it.
Looks like a cpu for sure. Probably from the late 80s, early 90's. Most CPUs prior to that took the form of IC chips.
I believe you will have to pop the heat sink off the CPU to see the info printed on the other side.
I have no idea. Yes it looks like a cpu. Are you thinking you may have hundreds or just a few. If its a few put it aside and keep going through all that stuff you just came across. You seem so have hit a nice clean out. Good job. If you have a lot read up about tape drives.
Two months ago I added ecycling to my business. I knew nothing, Still a lot to learn. I started learning about computers from the ground up. NOt just from a scrap angle but from a design point. Now I see a motherboard and look at yes the socket but Ill see How many chokes are on it. Whats the quality of components used, what era it was made etc. You think ya theres mid boards, high grade. When these get refined and depopulated its the assay that counts. So knowing what qualtiy a component is or what certain part is or if this memory is 4gb pc2 6400 Im testing and keeping it. Its pc2 and used years ago but many people dont have newest computers and are using pc2 3200. Wow the most common memory upgrade new is what pc2 6400. So mad I scrapped hundreds of pounds last month. This whole month I spent learning about just memory. Yes one skill at a time. Master it and remember. What a shame scrapping hundreds of pounds of memory for what .20 c each stick. When 1 gb 5300 is being bought by buyers all over not ebay. I mean like Ill come by your 1000 piece lot for 2 bucks a stick. Ten times your $$.
I tend to ramble because Ive been given a second chance at life and always want to tell the world about how If I can do it you can. Just tell me to shut up, If I saying things you guys dont want out there. Im more of a I like an educated consumer buyer than.... All your cats are am and domestic pre buyers. LOL
Aaron
I'd like to see pictures of the entire load. Maybe do a thread to show your progress during the job
You guys like threads like that. I would love to see more thread about what we found and how we handled it and made. I understand you guys who have learned it all the hard way. I dont want to give up too many secrets too. Some I wouldnt tell if you paid me because we all need that edge. Also I feel good learning and helping someone else. Pay it forward, start a thread with the clean out!!
This is very interesting. I know very little about computers all though I've been scrapping them for about six years. I know the diffrance between a low grade mother board and a high grade mother board and I know what memory is but don't know the diffrant grades of memory, the same with the diffrant PCI cards.Quote:
Originally Posted by stillwaterrecycling
Here is a little more eye candy from this clean out. There are hundreds and even thousands of pounds of this stuff. I'm like a kid in a candy store
No other info is known on this. I think if I try and remove the heatsink I would have to destroy it. I'll probably just use it as a paper weight unless I find more of them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jeremiah
I found the box for it. The PN is not coming up with anything in my searches.
" I think if I try and remove the heatsink I would have to destroy it. I'll probably just use it as a paper weight unless I find more of them."
Take the risk!
You have to break few eggs...
Seriously, many times the heat sink is stuck to the CPU
Use a putty knife or a utility knife & give it a little whack
I do it all the time
Kind of looks like the pins are built into the heatsink.
I did a little research on the CPU for you. I looked up the part # (the one that was crossed out) and came up with an IBM CPU that is an exact visual match for your CPU.
Photo here: IBM-MCM-HeatSink
I then found someone who paid $50.00 for one: CPU-World.com forums :: View topic - IBM 4381 MCM CPU
Happy New Year!
Steve (spinroch)
Thanks Steve!! That's great. I'm going to look around the barn to see if there is more. It looks like the collectible market is higher than the gold value on it. If I find another one I'll process it and see how much gold I get from it. At current prices there would have to be more than a gram of AU to be worth processing. I haven't had a chip yet that produces a gram of AU so I bet the collectible market is where this one goes.Quote:
Originally Posted by spinroch
Happy New Year!!