Well folks, I've decided to only maintain two retro-systems. The first is a slot-1 mobo abit bx6-r2 with a 1.4Ghz p3/celeron, 1gb ram, gf4600, sb awe64, 3com lan, extra usb2 ports, 1394 card, 3 120gb hd, 3.5, dvd and cd rom drives, 550 watt supply. That's the first system.

The second one is my old Gateway2000 80486 DX-2/50 with 16MB ram, 220meg hard disk, sb16+waveblaster+asp chip, Cirrus logic 5422 1MB graphics, 3.5 and 5.25 drive, extra parallel port card, 2 serial ports, 15 inch crt monitor, extra ram expansion card, weitek 4167 co-processor, 124key anykey keyboard, ch products joystick. creative labs 1x cd rom drive interfaced through sb16. And that's the second system.

The hardware configuration is pretty stable on those two retro-systems and I don't have upgrade plans for them.

I have a bunch of parts from previous upgrades and builds and stuff like that. Parts that have functioned quite well and have been upgraded simply for performance reasons, or disassembled and pillaged from other systems. Some was even gotten from other people in trade.

So, my question is how (and what) is the best way to get rid of a lot of other vintage hardware? I'd say most of the stuff is common more or less, and there may only be a few "rare" pieces if anything in the pile. Ebay? Craigs? right here on vogons? Or best dump it all in the trash??

Like I say, I'm pretty happy with my current retro PC line-up, and what I have can pretty much handle just about everything software wise. So I present to you the list.

I have some new in box usr modems, internal and external, v.everything
Some hayes smartmodems, new and loose.
a couple of diamond supra internal isa modems - 56.6 v.90
a box of soundcards, a few no-namers, 2 or 3 wave blaster daughtercards, an awe32 or two, some original first release soundblasters, some sb16's.
a vs440fx mobo or two, 1 with 4megs (or more) fpm ram
2 al440lx intel slot-1 mobos
a diamond micronics c400 mobo with k6-2 350 processor and ram 128mb
a few older wd hard disks 220-350mb, maybe 1.2 gb also
about 30 pounds of misc hardware like case fittings, wires, connectors, screws, stuff like that.
a few pentium-pro processors in all the varied speed grades, about 10.
some misc older pentium 90 or less chips,
a few 386 and 486 chips, maybe 8 total.
A handful of ram modules, all older, I don't recall the speeds or capacity
Some joysticks and a few isa networking cards, also some slot-1 cpus like p2-266 / p2-350 / p3-450 / a blowed-up p3-850 + its bad mobo,
another working abit bx6-r2
a 286 chip or two, 8087, 80287.
snappy digitizer (may decide to keep it)
zip drive (may decide to keep it too)
2 or 3 other no-name (or intel/soyo) pentium-pro mobos
a few obscure cards I have no idea about - about 15 of them.
soundcard cables, ac power cords, a handful of ide cables, things like that.

I also have a few older texas instruments calculators and trs-80 pocket computer stuff too. Some other classic calculators. As well as a canon H660 hi-8 camcorder, and a Jvc 3050 3" portable tv, really slick. There may be some fluke dmm's in the pile too.