Holy guacamole rummoli with cannelloni bologne.

edit: I think you've got some "mid century modern" furniture pieces under there that have grown in popularity the last few years also.

I'm going to be the party pooper and mention that places\hauls like that make me feel depressed. Looking through someone's organized bins of parts or disorganized piles of projects half finished just makes me think about mortality and how all of MY carefully organized bins of stuff and little baggies of half-done projects may be part of some "estate sale haul" that someone will get to dig through some day.

I've gone through a few hauls like this myself, and its neat to see the stuff, but its very sad at the same time.

"This crazy old techy guy ran ethernet to the attic to use for an office, had a pile of CRTs packed away in the knee wall for a rainy day and had plastic drawers full of old parts. I picked a few things out of before the scrap recyclers wiped the place out." <-- Someone digging through my junk.

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My sentiments exactly!

That's so awesome and I'm not going to lie I'm kinda jealous, but at the same time I'm glad the parts are going to a collector and not the landfill

Awesome...congrats, dude. If you need help absorbing some of the onslaught, PM me. I'll be happy to share in your burden.

Dear god.. where is this located? I just want to bathe in it.

I'd probably offload those OKIA power supplies, though. They are the classic "says 500W but actually low-quality 200W" sort of deal, those are.

Just thought of something that'd be incredible.

A youtube channel where you use a go-pro as you dig through the heaps of stuff. We could all experience the anticipation of opening each box, hoping its a whole box of unreleased prototype 3dfx hardware or maybe a vintage sound card collection... 😁

Seriously though, that'd be cool. 😀

I need this sorta luck.

Maybe you should buy a lotto ticket, or perhaps you have already won it?

Great bloody find, I certainly wish I were in your shoes.

This is one of those situations where I would take a full day - actually get up early, eat, go over there, put on some music, and just sort and inventory everything.

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This is one of those situations where I would take a full day - actually get up early, eat, go over there, put on some music, and just sort and inventory everything.

Maybe a full week is better. There sure seems to be a lot of stuff there. 😀

Re-open the shop! We can all take shifts..

Damn, good luck sorting all of that inventory! 😲

There's some good stuff in there for sure. That IBM is a really nice start.

The CH joystick is kind of neat. If the KeyTronic is a pre-PS/2 model, it could be pretty good.

Lots of cases, lots of boxes. 😀

Most of the boxes are empty. However, many times so far I'll dig through those empty boxes and suddenly find a brand new, still sealed graphics, sound card or even motherboard. Speaking of motherboards, most of the older AT boards had pretty bad battery leaks all over them. I was able to rescue a few, but it appears that others may be too far gone. I just can't bring myself to trash them though. In the near future, I'll take some pictures of the boards. Maybe someone can attempt to fix them.

In fact, I'll take pictures of the parts I've pulled so far. There's no way I'll ever be able to use everything myself. Even running a local computer service, there's just no way people are gonna buy all those CRT monitors for example 🤣. Maybe if some members here are interested, we could trade parts or I'll sell for very reasonable prices. Either way, after testing a lot of this equipment will be put up on ebay and a new website (which I'll be working on if I get the time 🤣)

I've built a couple of 100% period correct systems so far, but mostly, I'm still in the process of pulling stuff out of the shop. Seriously, every time I go down there, it's like a new episode of American Pickers. There's a lot of Computer history here and I want to make sure everything finds the right home.

...I've even thought about opening my own computer history museum.

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Most of the boxes are empty. However, many times so far I'll dig through those empty boxes and suddenly find a brand new, still sealed graphics, sound card or even motherboard. Speaking of motherboards, most of the older AT boards had pretty bad battery leaks all over them. I was able to rescue a few, but it appears that others may be too far gone. I just can't bring myself to trash them though. In the near future, I'll take some pictures of the boards. Maybe someone can attempt to fix them.

In fact, I'll take pictures of the parts I've pulled so far. There's no way I'll ever be able to use everything myself. Even running a local computer service, there's just no way people are gonna buy all those CRT monitors for example 🤣. Maybe if some members here are interested, we could trade parts or I'll sell for very reasonable prices. Either way, after testing a lot of this equipment will be put up on ebay and a new website (which I'll be working on if I get the time 🤣)

I've built a couple of 100% period correct systems so far, but mostly, I'm still in the process of pulling stuff out of the shop. Seriously, every time I go down there, it's like a new episode of American Pickers. There's a lot of Computer history here and I want to make sure everything finds the right home.

...I've even thought about opening my own computer history museum.

If you're planning on selling or trading parts or computers online, use either eBay or Amibay since buying, selling, and trading is against the VOGONS policy. BTW, welcome to VOGONS.

Great - good to see this stuff getting a new home.

Impressive. I'm still in the process of recovering my somewhat vast collection the hard way.