21 Jul
2021
21 Jul
'21
1:14 p.m.
On Wed, 21 Jul 2021 at 18:00, Grant Taylor via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
I suspect there are more people restoring ISA systems than PCI systems.
But that's probably a matter of time.
True. What I was thinking of was the relatively narrow gap between PCI
systems starting to appear and most of them gaining built-in NICs.
I doubt it's likely, but (traditional) WORM drives
are not out of the
question. (I'm not counting CDs / DVDs in the /traditional/ WORM mix,
despite many early writable drives being exactly that.)
Fair point. I'd expect SCSI but it's certainly possible.
Sadly, that might not be enough to discern things.
I've seen similar
cases used for a lot of different internal components.
No, I meant holding a NIC in one's hand and looking at it.
Fat contact strips: probably ISA.
2 sets, with thin parts interleaving 2 sets at different levels on the
edge connector: EISA
Narrow contact strips: PCI. Which variant, of course, has a bigger
option... PCI, 64-bit PCI, PCI-X, PCI-E, etc.
The OP (or
someone else on their behalf) is almost certainly going to need to get
more details to share with would be buyers.
Strongly agreed.
Um ... that's not true. I just purchased 10Base?
cards specifically for
the AUI ports to connect to my 10Base5 / "Thicknet" segment. Depending
on price, I'd probably walk away from a swap meet with more too.
(!)
OK. Few people will want? ;-)
It depends. I've talked with a handful of people
wanting some sort of
CD-ROM or their retro computers. They prefer the faster IDE drives.
But they would rather have the slower IDE drives than nothing. So I
believe that there is a reasonable chance that CD-ROMs sill have some value.
OK.
I still see some value in 2D cards. I'd lay down
a $5 bill for a PCI 2D
card like I had years ago. -- If I'm willing to do it, I assume that
there are others that are willing to do it too.
OK, fair enough.
It depends on the capacity and price. And /known/
status of the drive.
"For parts"? Probably not much value at all. Maybe for in a lot for
someone else to test. "Known working / passed SpinRite Level 4" much
more likely.
Yes, true. Known good, recently tested, will be worth much more.
They aren't IDE, but I suspect that drives in IBM
PS/2s that were known
to be working would be worth more than the smaller IDE drives. I think
that mostly means ESDI and SCSI.
Oh, yes, those are like hen's teeth.
Though it sounds like the OP wasn't interested in
doing this. As such,
I suspect that the OP is probably looking for someone to acquire (large
portions of) the lot and let that buyer test / resell things with
details and shipping to lots of places.
Well yes.
Someone in the 2600 mag FB group recently posted a few pics of a
collection, including multiple _boxed_ IBM PS/2s, and said they wanted
rid of them all as one lot.
In parts, it was 100% definitely thousands of dollars' worth.
As a job lot? Lucky to find someone, I suspect.
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