RandomStranger wrote on 2022-07-16, 15:44:
myrsnipe wrote on 2022-07-16, 13:41:
Speaking of throwing away, when i picked up the crt the guy told me he had thrown away 100kg of old 90s computers this week while cleaning, only stopping at the crt because it was still in its box. My heart sank a little, but he gave me a goody bag of Pentium 2,3, Celeron and some AMD CPUs as a freebie as well as some ram sticks that he had missed.
Sort of happened to me too. A friend of mine, or more like a good acquaintance told me a couple of months ago he used to fix PCs as a side gig and his basement was full of 90s hardware. Key word is was. The previous year he threw away everything. I almost cried.
myrsnipe wrote on 2022-07-16, 13:41:
Speaking of throwing away, when i picked up the crt the guy told me he had thrown away 100kg of old 90s computers this week while cleaning, only stopping at the crt because it was still in its box. My heart sank a little, but he gave me a goody bag of Pentium 2,3, Celeron and some AMD CPUs as a freebie as well as some ram sticks that he had missed.
Yes the usual tragic shit.. Back in 2018 a guy that did sell me good stuff, and did know i am collector, did give me the phone of a it appear former PC repair shop guy. I did call him ofc, just to find that, a month early the guy did have 2 FUCKING full rooms of old PC HW that he did collect since 1995, (needless to say he mentioned many good stuff like 3Dfx cards even x2 Voodoo 5 5500 cards, old IBM systems such as PC XT, PS1, PS2, 8088 XT no name systems, dual socket boards, Pentium Pros, long ISA audio cards, he mentioned an golden ISA audio card, mechanical keyboards) but as the business was not as profitable as it was before he did close doors... And guess what he did trow EVERYTHING to the scrap, i was so mad and sad, he was as well, for the fact that we did not find eatch other a month early, or even before that real tragedy... If i could at least save the 3Dfx cards, and all the pure rare exotics, i was going to be fine but....
I heard many of these stories from other PC repair shop owners over the years, but the thing with them is that, they did trow stuff like 3Dfx cards, Pentium Pros and other good stuff back in the early 2000s, since they did not have the storage space to hold everything and many things did go. Good at least in some schoold old teachers dont trow away computers and hardware, so i am able to collect everything old they have, keep the good and quality/ high end stuff, sell/ trade the rest...
Mah systems retro, old, newer (Radical stuff)
W3680 4.5/ GA-x58 UD7/ R9 280x
K7 2.6/ NF7-S/ HD3850
IBM x2 P3 933/ GA-6VXD7/ Voodoo V 5.5K
Cmq P2 450/ GA-BX2000/ V2 SLI
IBM PC365
Cmq DeskPRO 486/33
IBM PS/2 Model 56
SPS IntelleXT 8088