I should just buy new tantalum capacitors on ebay and replace them.. Why would someone buy your dead shit anyways? Also replace the other ones you cut off.

I'd go the route of assembling a complete system with it and selling it myself, since it sounds like you don't actually need it for anything.

I lovingly put together a 486 for sale on eBay recently and the experience left me cold. I got decent money for it relatively speaking but I still don't think it was worth my time, and it wasn't nearly as much fun building a machine for someone else.

In comparison I have some local dude coming to pick up a 486 I'm giving to him for nothin' today and I feel much more comfortable with that, I'm all care and no responsibility and he'll enjoy it more, coz he got it for free.

So I think I'm suggesting that you give it away and enjoy the good karma.

Robin4 wrote:

I should just buy new tantalum capacitors on ebay and replace them.. Why would someone buy your dead shit anyways? Also replace the other ones you cut off.

Wow. That was needlessly aggressive.

I don't know what you're talking about either. It's not dead any more, and I replaced ALL the capacitors.

WTF man?

mr_bigmouth_502 wrote:

I'd go the route of assembling a complete system with it and selling it myself, since it sounds like you don't actually need it for anything.

That was my initial idea, but...

badmojo wrote:

I lovingly put together a 486 for sale on eBay recently and the experience left me cold. I got decent money for it relatively speaking but I still don't think it was worth my time, and it wasn't nearly as much fun building a machine for someone else.

Yeah, I've seen you mention this before, such a shame. I think the vintage-PC-gamer scene might be reaching saturation, seems like it's just parts that sell now. That or as-original OEM systems.

badmojo wrote:

In comparison I have some local dude coming to pick up a 486 I'm giving to him for nothin' today and I feel much more comfortable with that, I'm all care and no responsibility and he'll enjoy it more, coz he got it for free.

So I think I'm suggesting that you give it away and enjoy the good karma.

This is sounding like a good idea.

Thanks for your input bigmouth and badmojo! 😀

Hmm. What's a good gaming benchmark for an 8088?

I gave my neighbour across the road / fellow vintage hoarder (well I'm not really a hoarder anyway) a couple of my mainboards that I have no real need for. Funny his daughter said to him "This guy is really after specific stuff because you have hundreds of things" 😀

Putting them on eBay, taking pictures, writing the articles, packing it, dragging it to the post office is just to much hassle and the boards are nothing special.

On Overclockers Australia is a give-away retro gear thread and I think it's a great idea.

I have also turned down a LOT of hardware because people know I'm into old computers. But it's always way too new and I have absolutely no need / time / space for Pentium 4 gear.

I also prefer to buy from fellow retro people. You can tell in the eBay auctions. They write a little about the product and know what it is. Can't stand those mass recycle sellers who take really poor pictures, want $100+ and haven't even tested it 😠

I wanted to get rid of some stuff to free up some space. I built up a pentium 150 box with a 3dfx Rush and an AWE64, loaded a few games on it like Quake, Hexen, Carmageddon, Duke 3d etc... put it on ebay for $35. Only got one bid. I got a few people asking if I'd split it so they could cherry pick what parts they wanted.

Totally wasn't worth the time and effort it took to build it and set it up, list it on ebay, deal with the cretins etc...
I think badmojo might have a point. I'd have probably got more out of the experience if I'd given it to someone who really wanted it and would enjoy it.

I do wonder on ebay, how many of these people are actually playing with the hardware and enjoying it, or just sticking it in a cupboard as an addition to their 'collection'? basically just hoarding it and shrinking the market.

Wow, that sucks DK. 🙁

I guess I'll see if someone on VCF maybe wants to buy it. If not, yeah, I'll give it away I suppose. Trouble is, the only person I know that'd want it and is within driving distance of me is you! 😜

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I wanted to get rid of some stuff to free up some space. I built up a pentium 150 box with a 3dfx Rush and an AWE64, loaded a fe […]
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I wanted to get rid of some stuff to free up some space. I built up a pentium 150 box with a 3dfx Rush and an AWE64, loaded a few games on it like Quake, Hexen, Carmageddon, Duke 3d etc... put it on ebay for $35. Only got one bid. I got a few people asking if I'd split it so they could cherry pick what parts they wanted.

Totally wasn't worth the time and effort it took to build it and set it up, list it on ebay, deal with the cretins etc...
I think badmojo might have a point. I'd have probably got more out of the experience if I'd given it to someone who really wanted it and would enjoy it.

I do wonder on ebay, how many of these people are actually playing with the hardware and enjoying it, or just sticking it in a cupboard as an addition to their 'collection'? basically just hoarding it and shrinking the market.

When parts were cheap, I was major hoarder. As soon as prices caught up with the market, though, I could no longer afford to hoard but if something appears that is underpriced, I will still grab it whether I need it or not as either a spare or trade bait for something more expensive that I want.