Personally, I would keep everything but those damn modems and anything firewire related.

The Nexgen and Socket 4 boards are absolute keepers. For DOS builds the Riva 128 cards are also great, I'm an unwavering fan of those. Voodoo 1, that can come handy too. The M912 and the SBlive too, though the latter is anything but rare. No problem.

Edit. Oh, and the Wildcat. I don't even know how that works but that's... a very interesting piece, exciting even.

I would also keep all of it but the modems. Even the RTL8029.

alvaro84 wrote on 2025-01-27, 17:33:

and the Wildcat.

It's a beast.

I forgot: ASUS CUSL2, P3-1000EB, GF4-4200 AGP, GF3-200 AGP, SB Live! PCI, Opti 4 Port USB Controller PCI, ESS18xx PCI Soundcard and another 10/100 Intel Pro PCI.
Also two ELSA 3D REVELATOR Shutter Glasses - I used them as a kid with the ELSA Victory Erazor if I remember correctly.

In for sound build ideas.

I will have to trade something of my parts because I'm missing AT Cases, ISA/VLB GPU and ISA Soundcard for the NexGen.

Picture of the Power PC 750 Board:

Modems and FireWire can be ditched, but you MIGHT be able to get some $$$$ for them, as there's still some usage scenarios for FireWire (A/V media retrieval/migration is one) and some weirdos just want old modems for whatever weird purpose. I don't know if the same holds true for SCSI at this point, but someone somewhere is always using really old stuff in weird ways.

Hmm! ISA Radio card sounds kind of interesting, as FM radio is still around.

I agree, most things there are sellable if you have the time. But maybe not the modems. 😀

I'd sell the modems too, but also the SCSI stuff. My basement is full of SCSI stuff and I never got any real use out of them, just lazy to sell them. Maybe one or two better controller cards could stay if you ever get around to build something with an SCSI optical drive.

I'd also trim down the number of of networking cards, keeping some of the better ones.

The ISA serial cards, you probably don't need 25 of them. I'd keep like 5.

My advice would be to keep the 486 dx4 ,complete the nexgen and sell all other hardware on ebay.It is not about the money but for the dealing with buyera and trade as your father used to do.It is exactly like walking in his shoes.Eventually it will take time to sell all that hardware so enjoy the ride.

Video card and sound cards can be sold for a bit more.
but if you have the time list low value items on eBay individually with a €1 plus shipping and it's surprising what does sell.

SCSI and firewire has a small following.
Network cards are always useful, including slow Wifi cards if they support older windows versions
Even modems are gaining in popularity with people recreating dial up networks, Although mostly external modems, I'd try selling all of them for €5

I did a big clear out in 2023, and was surprised what sold and what didn't.

*Give* away an Nx586? If serious, I'll take it 😜 - that thing is worth a couple of hundred EUR easily (at least, if it works). Even if you aren't interested in it yourself, the sort of money selling that could net you would let you buy nice stuff you are interested in. Or you could exchange it.

In a very general sense, the only things that really aren't going to be useful/interesting for others are the ISDN cards and analog modems, as the infrastructure to use them with simply doesn't exist anymore. A lot of the rest is pretty generic, so not worth a huge amount (EUR 2.50-10 or so); the biggest challenge would be connecting to people who happen to be looking for an old 10Mb NIC or ISA SCSI card. It would be a lot of work to offload everything here, but you could consider bundling stuff.

The PowerPC board is from a Blue&White PowerMac G3.

P60 might be a collectable.
See if you can trigger the bug that got them recalled.

Ok guys, I'll test all of the components and keep you updated.

This weekend I'll pick up the second batch of parts. I'm not that interested in dumping on eBay, neither willing to pay hundreds of bucks for VLB GPU or ISA soundcard myself. Maybe I can trade some of the ridiculous high priced parts for some other that I would need eventually.

Ordered three OEM Dell 80+ Gold ATX PSU with strong -12V rail and built already two AT adapter because I'm not willing to fry my stuff with the old AT PSUs (did not mention above, they're in questionable condition). Will be on the bench till I get some cases (I can't answer your PM's 😁, so please leave me another contact option).

For some of the components I'll need help. I really don't know how to operate the PowerPC - Linux?

Do I need passive / active cooling for the Socket 4 P60? Is there something "compatible" from more modern sockets?

Hopefully the RAM works. I've a lot of 72pin modules.

Don't hold back your good advice, I've a strong CS and a bit of EE background but maybe I'm overlooking some obvious or not so obvious caveats - I won't judge you for a schoolmasterish tone 😀

Lol!
So cute!

It'll barely get warm with zero cooling.
That's how they ran

myne wrote on 2025-01-28, 13:21:

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Lol!
So cute!

It'll barely get warm with zero cooling.
That's how they ran

That is absolutely not true. P60s were hot and will cook themselves without a fan.

I don't think the one pictured will have the FDIV bug either, they changed the print on the fixed versions so they don't have the word "processor" under pentium.

You've got many nice things. It's a fast start of a collection 😀

Anything ISDN related is definitely not trash. Many people are experimenting with recreating these networks and the hardware is scarce

maxtherabbit wrote on 2025-01-28, 15:11:

Anything ISDN related is definitely not trash. Many people are experimenting with recreating these networks and the hardware is scarce

Scarce? Maybe in the US, here in EU pretty much any random lot of hardware is bulked out with multiple Eicon Diva and (like here) AVM ISDN cards. Of course, if we keep throwing them away they will sooner or later get scarce, but for now they are probably the commonest 'useless' cards in DE and in NL (which never deployed ISDN as widely) second behind analog POTS modems.

Joakim wrote on 2025-01-27, 19:06:

I agree, most things there are sellable if you have the time. But maybe not the modems. 😀

Reasons to keep modems:

• Cheaper than buying new blank slot covers
• Could be a source of spare surface mount resistors in some cases
• ISA models <= 33.6 often have re-usable eproms

Anything else?