27 Apr
2005
27 Apr
'05
7:36 p.m.
On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 10:51:21 -0700 (PDT)
Vintage Computer Festival <vcf at siconic.com> wrote:
On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, Marvin Johnston wrote:
I felt this way about 8088-era motherboards. So a number of years back
I scrapped them. Now, I've found that it's fairly difficult to track
down an XT motherboard.
It's even starting to be less easy to find common 'baby-AT' 286/386/486
motherboards these days. Most of the stuff has been recycled. The
'junk' now being scrapped in the mainstream is Pentium I stuff.
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? I am keeping all the disk controller
cards, memory expansion cards, and any specialized cards. Are they
any Apple IIx cards worth saving? My general rule there has been
that if I have the docs, they are worth saving.
I keep all "interesting" Apple ][ cards, which is to say anything that
isn't a disk controller or a Super Serial Card (I have tonnes of
those).
As far as PC stuff, I would keep a few of what you find useful and
scrap the rest. The world will be littered with them for a few more
years so you'll have plenty of time to settle any regrets before they
all disappear.