First post, by OtakuN3rd
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Hi Vogons,
Yesterday I ended up with a large amount of older PC hardware parts and pieces. In the lot is several proprietary motherboards - most with their respective riser cards. I am wondering what the heck to do with 'em. I don't have cases for them, and have plenty of other hardware to play with, and limited time/fabrication resources to homebrew cases for them.
There's 5 HP motherboards (two different models), all slot 1, and four of them have their risers. There's one Compaq Socket 7 motherboard, and one DEC Socket 7 board, plus a riser board from an Acer computer.
Would these be pretty much e-waste, or is there enough of an interest that they are worth saving/selling? I hate to see them end up in the trash/recycling, but I don't want to go through the effort of getting shipping supplies listing them on eBay only to have them not sell. I'm not looking to make money off of them, but I don't want to sell them so cheap as that it end us up costing me money to ship them out, either.
In case someone is curious, the other things I got in the big lot of parts are about 60 different expansion cards, some early 90's SCSI CD drives, and a couple more standard form factor motherboards. The cards are mostly ISA network cards (No less than 22 of them are 3Com Etherlink III cards). I suppose some of the more interesting ones are a few Aztech OEM sound cards, three VLB video cards (a Trident and two Cirrus Logic), and a bunch of various controller cards ranging from a single RS-232 port to VLB I/O cards with bunches of various ports. Unfortunately, what may have been the most interesting motherboard in the lot was destroyed by battery leakage. It was a dual socket 8 (Pentium Pro) board. 🙁