Sadder are things of value not offered on eBay,
and just thrown in the trash.
And please renmember that things most people consider to be trash may
well be useful for restoring vintage computers. A defective cirucit board
may either be repairable, or may yield an otherwise hard-to-find chip.
As an example, I am looking for a couple of a particualr Sony 3.5" disk
drive (I can look up the model number). I don't care about the condition
of the heads. I don't care if the chips are blown. I don't care if the PCB
is cracked. What I need, actually, are the plastic front panels and eject
buttons. These drives were used in an Acorn filestore unit, I have 2
drives from other Acorn machines where they were used without panels and
buttons (the computer case mouldings provided the disk slot, etc).
Yes I could use any 720K drive, but I like to keep hardware as original
as possible...
-tony