23 Sep
1997
23 Sep
'97
5:56 a.m.
> I'm starting to sort through the misc. parts
and accessories that I've
> collected over the years and am wondering if certain things are really
> worth keeping, such as:
>
> 1200 baud modems (Hayes external, Racal Vadic VA212LC)
> CGA cards
> Hercules and MDA mono cards
> Generic XT floppy controllers
To put in my 2 cents' worth...
Up until last year, I sold XT's pretty regularly. This year, I sold two. I
*do* still see some acquired out there (last Sunday, I set up a PC for a
friend and her kids...she bought it for $9 at an auction) and many of my
customers still have the older stuff (good grief -- we still have a couple
Epson QX-10's around, in this hick town!)
Motherboards are gonna start going rapidly pretty soon, and
monitors...nobody makes CGA anymore that I know of...what user (versus
collector) is gonna replace a CGA with VGA on an XT? He'll junk the whole
thing, and buy a Packard Bell at Wal-Mart (and use it to play Solitaire.)
Worth keeping? I think so. Boards don't take up a whole lot of space, and
you're going to make a collector *very* happy some day. (I'd take your
boards, except that I've already got plenty.) But, it'll be a long time
before you sell them!
23 Sep
23 Sep
1:02 p.m.
> I'm
starting to sort through the misc. parts and accessories that I've
> collected over the years and am wondering if certain things are really
> worth keeping, such as:
>
> 1200 baud modems (Hayes external, Racal Vadic VA212LC)
> CGA cards
> Hercules and MDA mono cards
> Generic XT floppy controllers
To put in my 2 cents' worth...
Motherboards are gonna start going rapidly pretty
soon, and
monitors...nobody makes CGA anymore that I know of...what user (versus
collector) is gonna replace a CGA with VGA on an XT? He'll junk the whole
thing, and buy a Packard Bell at Wal-Mart (and use it to play Solitaire.)
Maybe, but I'm finding it easier lately to get mono VGAs and 256K VGA cards
than to find Herc clones and mono monitors. I recently found a lovely
paper-white Dell on the curb and picked up a Wyse for $5.
Worth keeping? I think so. Boards don't take up a
whole lot of space, and
you're going to make a collector *very* happy some day. (I'd take your
boards, except that I've already got plenty.) But, it'll be a long time
before you sell them!
Probably so... I'm rethinking the idea in favor of keeping them and just
dumping any cards which I *know* don't work.
<<<John>>>
24 Sep
24 Sep
12:24 a.m.
On Tue, 23 Sep 1997, John Ruschmeyer wrote:
Maybe, but I'm finding it easier lately to get
mono VGAs and 256K VGA cards
than to find Herc clones and mono monitors. I recently found a lovely
Absolutely. So keep the rarer Hercules cards :-).
It's easier to find a 486 PC-clone than a PERQ (at least over here, alas).
That doesn't mean we shouldn't keep the PERQ, does it?
There are a number of PC adapters that are almost impossible to obtain
now. Even things like the original XT serial card (which will work in slot
8 of an XT where nothing else will, and which will drive a current loop
device) are not that common. Nor are TTL-based parallel cards (which can
be hacked to be bidirectional). I have plenty of both of those, but intend
to hang on to them
Probably so... I'm rethinking the idea in favor of
keeping them and just
dumping any cards which I *know* don't work.
NO!. A lot of these cards (certainly the genuine IBM ones) can be
repaired. I don't know where the myth springs from that they can't but
it's just that - a myth.
What I would do is dump/strip the impossible to repair ones (one big FQFP
chip with no standard equivalnet), and keep _all_ IBM (working or not),
_all_ repairable clones (TTL+standard ICs), and all working ones.
<<<John>>>
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