5 others pics

5 others pics

5 others big lot
some pc have 2 pictures.

others

5 others again

5 others

2 last

some items in the lot miss a picture he told me

That's not terrible if you have money to risk on unknown hardware or if you live in an urban area where larger items are more likely to be desirable to potential other local buyers (I live fairly rural so monitors are not worth anything to me as they are usually not worth shipping) if you are thinking of reselling some of it. Looks like a good mix of 386/486/early Pentium

bertrammatrix wrote on 2025-09-23, 03:11:

That's not terrible if you have money to risk on unknown hardware or if you live in an urban area where larger items are more likely to be desirable to potential other local buyers (I live fairly rural so monitors are not worth anything to me as they are usually not worth shipping) if you are thinking of reselling some of it. Looks like a good mix of 386/486/early Pentium

yes i want to sell some of them and keep a few items for my own collection, i live in a urban zone.
But the condition is like not tested, so i'm not so sure. But my father is a electronic techcian, a great one. yeah monitor is difficult to ship for many reasons... I still waiting the answer of the seller. Thanks

bertrammatrix wrote on 2025-09-23, 03:11:

That's not terrible if you have money to risk on unknown hardware or if you live in an urban area where larger items are more likely to be desirable to potential other local buyers (I live fairly rural so monitors are not worth anything to me as they are usually not worth shipping) if you are thinking of reselling some of it. Looks like a good mix of 386/486/early Pentium

Quite a lot of this stuff goes back to XT era. There's a (not hugely interesting) Tatung CGA monitor and a (rather more interesting) NEC Multisync EGA+VGA monitor in the pile, an XT keyboard and some of the cases are XT clones.

I love 'lootbox' lots, but wouldn't personally spend this sort of money on them, particularly not as there are no pics of the business end (rear) of the systems. You could hit gold with working systems full of interesting stuff - or you could have a big pile of non-functioning hardware with no standout bits&pieces on your hands. If that XT clone just has a CGA (clone) adapter inside, a small (broken) MFM HDD and not much else, and those later systems are also just basic office systems with minimal graphics and no sound, this could be a bit disappointing. Of course, they could also contain all kinds of rare and exotic hardware, but that's a long shot.

It's great that you have a father who might be able to help fix stuff, but - as such a father myself - if you want some good quality father-child time fixing up old crap, I'd suggest being a bit more focused: get a single system with contents that have particular meaning to at least one of you and go deep there. You've been posting a lot of topics recently with fairly basic questions about a whole lot of different things. That suggests a huge amount of enthousiasm, but also a bit of a lack of focus. You'd learn more by slowing down and instead of blurting out the first questions that come to mind, first think how you might go about answering them yourself - and if you can't to ask about the process rather than the specific answers you're looking for (i.e. asking for help and tips on how to fish, not just asking for some fish - and some more fish - and hey, is that another fish too? 😉 )

Other thing to watch is delivery, unless it's collect, CRT monitors are a nightmare to ship, heavy things with age brittled plastic

dionb wrote on 2025-09-23, 06:36:

Quite a lot of this stuff goes back to XT era. There's a (not hugely interesting) Tatung CGA monitor and a (rather more interest […]
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bertrammatrix wrote on 2025-09-23, 03:11:

That's not terrible if you have money to risk on unknown hardware or if you live in an urban area where larger items are more likely to be desirable to potential other local buyers (I live fairly rural so monitors are not worth anything to me as they are usually not worth shipping) if you are thinking of reselling some of it. Looks like a good mix of 386/486/early Pentium

Quite a lot of this stuff goes back to XT era. There's a (not hugely interesting) Tatung CGA monitor and a (rather more interesting) NEC Multisync EGA+VGA monitor in the pile, an XT keyboard and some of the cases are XT clones.

I love 'lootbox' lots, but wouldn't personally spend this sort of money on them, particularly not as there are no pics of the business end (rear) of the systems. You could hit gold with working systems full of interesting stuff - or you could have a big pile of non-functioning hardware with no standout bits&pieces on your hands. If that XT clone just has a CGA (clone) adapter inside, a small (broken) MFM HDD and not much else, and those later systems are also just basic office systems with minimal graphics and no sound, this could be a bit disappointing. Of course, they could also contain all kinds of rare and exotic hardware, but that's a long shot.

It's great that you have a father who might be able to help fix stuff, but - as such a father myself - if you want some good quality father-child time fixing up old crap, I'd suggest being a bit more focused: get a single system with contents that have particular meaning to at least one of you and go deep there. You've been posting a lot of topics recently with fairly basic questions about a whole lot of different things. That suggests a huge amount of enthousiasm, but also a bit of a lack of focus. You'd learn more by slowing down and instead of blurting out the first questions that come to mind, first think how you might go about answering them yourself - and if you can't to ask about the process rather than the specific answers you're looking for (i.e. asking for help and tips on how to fish, not just asking for some fish - and some more fish - and hey, is that another fish too? 😉 )

its a community to get help here, vogons dont have a maximum of questions by person. If i ask question, its because i need these answers and i dont find it elsewhere. Nobody know everything dont forget that. My father an me have a lot of focus, i have 45 and my father 70 and he repairs pc and vintage pc and videogames consoles since 1983 for different big company, he still passionated, we dont lose any focus, we buy everything we can, we keep what we want in our collection and sell the others computers or parts we dont need. My fathers and me together have more than 30 pc vintage working build, that are perfectly repaired and working like new. We dont need to be judged by anyone about our purchasing habits or judgment, its insulting coming from you, I am very disappointed by your comments. dont ask me or answer me anymore if you are not interested, that's all. maybe youre just jealous, i dont know, maybe you just cant believe my father and me will create a pcmcia gameport card, i'm sorry you didnt have answer to my questions, my father kniw the answers anyway.

I'm not going to deprive myself of asking questions to please you.

About that lot i'm not so sure, he accepted, but i hesitated, its not just for collecting, i make money too selling that in my city, it works nice, a lot of vintage fanatics.

renejr902 wrote on 2025-09-23, 16:27:

its a community to get help here, vogons dont have a maximum of questions by person. If i ask question, its because i need these […]
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dionb wrote on 2025-09-23, 06:36:

Quite a lot of this stuff goes back to XT era. There's a (not hugely interesting) Tatung CGA monitor and a (rather more interest […]
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bertrammatrix wrote on 2025-09-23, 03:11:

That's not terrible if you have money to risk on unknown hardware or if you live in an urban area where larger items are more likely to be desirable to potential other local buyers (I live fairly rural so monitors are not worth anything to me as they are usually not worth shipping) if you are thinking of reselling some of it. Looks like a good mix of 386/486/early Pentium

Quite a lot of this stuff goes back to XT era. There's a (not hugely interesting) Tatung CGA monitor and a (rather more interesting) NEC Multisync EGA+VGA monitor in the pile, an XT keyboard and some of the cases are XT clones.

I love 'lootbox' lots, but wouldn't personally spend this sort of money on them, particularly not as there are no pics of the business end (rear) of the systems. You could hit gold with working systems full of interesting stuff - or you could have a big pile of non-functioning hardware with no standout bits&pieces on your hands. If that XT clone just has a CGA (clone) adapter inside, a small (broken) MFM HDD and not much else, and those later systems are also just basic office systems with minimal graphics and no sound, this could be a bit disappointing. Of course, they could also contain all kinds of rare and exotic hardware, but that's a long shot.

It's great that you have a father who might be able to help fix stuff, but - as such a father myself - if you want some good quality father-child time fixing up old crap, I'd suggest being a bit more focused: get a single system with contents that have particular meaning to at least one of you and go deep there. You've been posting a lot of topics recently with fairly basic questions about a whole lot of different things. That suggests a huge amount of enthousiasm, but also a bit of a lack of focus. You'd learn more by slowing down and instead of blurting out the first questions that come to mind, first think how you might go about answering them yourself - and if you can't to ask about the process rather than the specific answers you're looking for (i.e. asking for help and tips on how to fish, not just asking for some fish - and some more fish - and hey, is that another fish too? 😉 )

its a community to get help here, vogons dont have a maximum of questions by person. If i ask question, its because i need these answers and i dont find it elsewhere. Nobody know everything dont forget that. My father an me have a lot of focus, i have 45 and my father 70 and he repairs pc and vintage pc and videogames consoles since 1983 for different big company, he still passionated, we dont lose any focus, we buy everything we can, we keep what we want in our collection and sell the others computers or parts we dont need. My fathers and me together have more than 30 pc vintage working build, that are perfectly repaired and working like new. We dont need to be judged by anyone about our purchasing habits or judgment, its insulting coming from you, I am very disappointed by your comments. dont ask me or answer me anymore if you are not interested, that's all. maybe youre just jealous, i dont know, maybe you just cant believe my father and me will create a pcmcia gameport card, i'm sorry you didnt have answer to my questions, my father kniw the answers anyway.

I'm not going to deprive myself of asking questions to please you.

About that lot i'm not so sure, he accepted, but i hesitated, its not just for collecting, i make money too selling that in my city, it works nice, a lot of vintage fanatics.

WTF?

I was just giving some advice on what I would recommend and most definitely not judging. As you've hopefully noticed I've taken the effort to post in your topics where I thought I could help and was intending to continue do so. I most definitely don't know it all though, and don't pretend otherwise. I do admit to misjudging your age as based on your posts I got the impression you were a young teenager like my own son. Regardless of age I'm happy that you have a father who is still capable and willing to do this sort of stuff with you. I'm not jealous, but I'm only a few years older and lost my father quite some time ago. I'd like to think he would have enjoyed similar things if he'd still been around and in good enough mental and physical health.

I cant comment on the price as don't know the Canadian market let alone your region well enough.

I can tell you CRT monitors are hard to give away let alone sell.
I myself picked up 10 for free few years ago from someone doing a clear out. I only wanted 1 but said would collect any left over at the end of his 2 week deadline.
2 weeks later he called to say he only had 1 other phone call who didn't show up.

I then attempted to give away the monitors, 2 were given away here, and the rest to my one and only reply on FB marketplace.

If your prepared to ship the monitors you may have more luck, but you take on the high risk if its damaged in transit.
My CRT haul and giveaway (UK only)

PC's I've had more luck selling as are easier to package and ship.
I also find it fun to clean up, restore and upgrade to at least the beginings of a nice retro gaming machine. But I'm not doing this for profit, any money I make is just a bonus.
I'm picking up the PC's more as something to play with, maybe score some hardware I want to keep long term and give back to the community with any money I make just been spent on the next project.
So if you think $700 is a good price for 8 computers to play with over the next few months. then its a good price (It's still probably cheaper then spending weekends at the pub for the same amount of time)

With no guarantee any of it is working, or even fixable, I'd be hesitant to spend that kind of money on it. I would be wondering why this seller has so much of it, and is it really untested?

I think most people would at least try to turn on what they are trying to sell, because they know something that works is worth more than something that doesnt.

renejr902 wrote on 2025-09-23, 02:18:

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What do you think of my offer ? is it too much ? should i offer more

( another guy offer 500$ canadian)

The seller think about my offer right now.

8 computer, 7 crt monitor et 10 keyboard in total ?

The seller asked me for 400$ for just the Compaq PC and the Tatung. Looks like his pricings aren't quite consistent.. and yes it's crazy too much.. he started talking about prices on eBay and what not.. but come on, listing dirty PCs that God knows what's inside them and their working condition for a sale without any return guarantees.. It's unreasonable IMO.

If you are able to collect the stuff personally it may be worth it, especially if you can at least test if the various PCs and monitors turn on. Otherwise it's very risky and judging by the pictures there's a high chance a lot of the stuff won't be functional or missing important components.

wbahnassi wrote on 2025-09-24, 11:59:

he started talking about prices on eBay and what not

Seems to be a common issue with anything second hand these days. Want the "full" ebay price without the work
That's where you mention included in the ebay price is typically tested, return policy, shipping and packaging and the time spent to make the post, as well as the cut ebay take's on sale price.

Large untested lots on more local sites can be valid. I've done this myself. It's useful to move large amounts inventory fast, of course if someone is doing this you can't ask full price though.

and if the seller refuses to accept this, its best to just pass on the deal