Compaq Deskpro boards/hard drives from the late 1990s

[Bill Degnan]

If you're looking to donate, Kennett Classic can use these to support
what's in our "post vintage" room (goes up to 1997)
Bill

On Tue, Jul 20, 2021 at 2:11 PM Kevin Anderson via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:

> For a time I had quite a few Compaq Deskpro towers that had acquired (for
> free) from my employer after they updated to a newer HP Compaq model.
> These Compaq Deskpros were the white-boxed variety with Pentium III the
> like processors that date to the later part of the 1990s and into the
> 2000s.  They interested me because they were able to work with the flavors
> of Linux that were becoming plentiful and useful at the time (like
> Mandrake, etc.) Anyway, the desktops themselves are gone, as well as the PC
> keyboards and the monitors that went with them, with this paragraph just
> setting the scene....
>
> But at the same time I also acquired (pulled) from these same computers
> and their siblings a whole bunch of wired Ethernet network cards, one or
> two video cards, a whole bunch of the IDE/PATA 5.25-inch desktop CD drives,
> and a whole bunch(!) of 10- and 20-GByte IDE/PATA 5.25-inch desktop hard
> drives.  I believe the vintage makes them all PCI cards for the network and
> video cards. For some reason I must have had it in my head that I would all
> need these extra cards (and more) to keep these boxes (and other desktops)
> going into the future when the apocalypse came <grin> !
>
> Now I have no need for any of these parts. I don't want to chuck them to a
> recycler either, but it is tempting just to get the stuff out of the house
> (as I need to seriously downsize prior to retirement).
>
> Is there a market for any of this that is worth pursing, or is this all
> too generic and plentiful to worry about?  Giving shipping and that, I am
> not sure how much of this I'd care to deal with this through resale (eBay
> or privately) versus just dropping it all at the electronics recycling shop
> (which fortunately I have locally).
>
> Just starting to sort this out...I've been meaning to send this e-mail for
> awhile now.  Your collective thoughts?  I know most of this is too new for
> most of your interests...
>
> Kevin Anderson, Dubuque, Iowa
>