Compaq Deskpro boards/hard drives from the late 1990s

On Tue, 20 Jul 2021 at 20:11, Kevin Anderson via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote: I _think_ ISA ones are in more demand these days. PCI? CD, or CDRW, or DVD, or DVDRW? I consider this bit unlikely TBH. 5.25" *IDE* HDDs were _extremely_ rare. The 5.25" format was dead before IDE came along, and 99% were 3.5", except the Quantum Bigfoot range. Those were slow, unreliable, but cheap. I have one, as a sentimental reminder of full-width hard disk drives from the beginning of my career. You can't tell?! They don't even look similar. Google will give you pics in seconds. You will need to identify this stuff much more specifically. Makes, models, capacities, speeds, etc. E.g. nobody wants 10base-2 or Thick Ethernet cards much any more. UTP, slightly more so: 10base-T, not much, 100base-T somewhat yes. Plain old CD? Probably not. DVDRW? You might find takers. Graphics: depends what. Early 3D cards are somewhat wanted. Tiny IDE hard disks, probably not. CF-card is cheaper, faster and more reliable. It's not worth a lot. OTOH, those unique Compaq combined 5.25" + 3.5" floppy drives are quite sought-after. SCSI drives are quite desirable. It's probably not worth a _lot_ but maybe a few hundred bucks if you are specific and ship anywhere. Remember a lot of collectors are in countries where this stuff is very hard to come by, and will pay top dollar. But you need to be willing to be specific, list exact model numbers, take photos showing ID labels, and ideally, to _test it_. -- Liam Proven ? Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lproven at cix.co.uk ? gMail/gTalk/gHangouts: lproven at gmail.com Twitter/Facebook/LinkedIn/Flickr: lproven ? Skype: liamproven UK: +44 7939-087884 ? ?R (+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal): +420 702 829 053