27 Apr
2005
27 Apr
'05
4:38 a.m.
On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 23:02 -0700, Marvin Johnston wrote:
I am trying to decide what to do with a bunch of
16-bit ISA IDE/Floppy
controller, etc. cards. Is there still a use for them, or should I just
add (most of) them to the (rapidly growing) scrap reclaim box? What
about 8-bit and/or 16-bit ethernet cards, no-name 8-bit serial/parallel
cards, older style floppy disk cables that still support the 5 1/4"
floppy drives? Maybe a better question; are they any cards worth saving?
They still seem to change hands (for free) pretty often on the local
university groups here. Particularly ethernet cards (useful for homebrew
home firewalls I suppose), and parallel cards (handy for robotics
projects?).
Maybe there's a local place such as that you can at least advertise on
rather than dumping them.
Only you know what's worth keeping for yourself, of course :-)
cheers
Jules