23 Sep
1997
23 Sep
'97
10:02 a.m.
> I'm
starting to sort through the misc. parts and accessories that I've
> collected over the years and am wondering if certain things are really
> worth keeping, such as:
>
> 1200 baud modems (Hayes external, Racal Vadic VA212LC)
> CGA cards
> Hercules and MDA mono cards
> Generic XT floppy controllers
To put in my 2 cents' worth...
Motherboards are gonna start going rapidly pretty
soon, and
monitors...nobody makes CGA anymore that I know of...what user (versus
collector) is gonna replace a CGA with VGA on an XT? He'll junk the whole
thing, and buy a Packard Bell at Wal-Mart (and use it to play Solitaire.)
Maybe, but I'm finding it easier lately to get mono VGAs and 256K VGA cards
than to find Herc clones and mono monitors. I recently found a lovely
paper-white Dell on the curb and picked up a Wyse for $5.
Worth keeping? I think so. Boards don't take up a
whole lot of space, and
you're going to make a collector *very* happy some day. (I'd take your
boards, except that I've already got plenty.) But, it'll be a long time
before you sell them!
Probably so... I'm rethinking the idea in favor of keeping them and just
dumping any cards which I *know* don't work.
<<<John>>>