Emptying hardware "spares" bin

[eagl]

Some of you guys know how painful this is...  Emptying out the old hardware "spares" bin.  Stuff I threw away today:

3 Original 3dfx video cards including the first Voodoo2 SLI set (60fps at 1024x768 or 800x600 running janes F-15!)
Original ISA soundblaster pro
S3-968 video card (the one that enabled the first "hires sort-of-3D" enhanced version of "Confirmed Kill" which later became WarBirds)
3 intel "slot" celeron cpus (300s?), the ones that could be overclocked to insane speeds (back then) with a simple aftermarket cooler
2 awesome ISA US Robotics modems, one 14.4 and the other the top of the line (28.8?) when modems finally quit being sold
8 old hard drives.  Anything below 200GB got wiped and tossed in the trash, including some of the fastest... back in 2001.  3x laptop drives and 5 desktop drives, all premium in their day.
10 sticks of ram, including some 8MB EDO sticks from my first and last ever store-bought desktop (Zeos 386).
2 PCI sound cards (no win7 drivers so in the trash they go)
1 ISA SCSI card
3 cheapo realtek PCI 10/100 network cards
2 Full gameport HOTAS setups including a complete thrustmaster setup with digital chip upgrade, rudders, and a CH flightstick pro with CH pro throttle and rudders, all gameport driven so in the trash
gameport racing wheel
About 50 misc cables
Nice but driver limited gadget to broadcast to a remote receiver whatever is coming out of your soundcard output
20 boxed games, mostly in original boxes, from the late 1990s through 2004 before directX and direct3d won the final battle against 3dfx.  Some came on floppies...
CDs and licenses for lots of old utilities, windows versions, a complete set of MSDN developer tools from back in 2006, MS visual studio full developers set (student edition) from around 2008...

And lots more stuff including cables, brackets, adaptors, etc etc.

All of this stuff was probably worth *something* to *someone* which is why I still had it, but it isn't worth the cost to ship anywhere and I live in a small town, so to the dump it goes.

I still have a nice thin/light 13" core2 solo laptop and one of those small form factor "bookshelf" size PCs with a dual core Athlon 64 AM2 cpu in it, either of which would make a great school computer running winXP or even win7 (both upgraded with more ram), but nobody in town is buying.  So either I hang on to them for my 4-yr old to play with or maybe I can find a school to donate them to.  I'm also hanging onto the USB saitek stick/throttle I won with Drex at an AH convention along with some USB CH pedals, but I don't know when I'll get the time to actually use them again.

[zack1234]

 

Its amazing what things you collect,  I have a large amount of unused door hinges don't ask me why I have no idea

[eagl]

Hinges

Another one bites the dust... An optionally-powered ethernet hub, 10mbps.  I carried it along for those rare times I needed to network two laptops together with no power available, but now it's all wireless so in the trash it goes.

[Shuffler]

Amazing what we keep. lol

I still have a Compaq Suitcase (in working order) and a Compaq Server with 4 2.5gig hot swapable drives. 

A whole lot of cards and parts. I did clean most out about 6 months back.

[Meatwad]

Might of got a little cash on ebay for some

[eagl]

Might of got a little cash on ebay for some

Maybe but I don't seem to ever have the time to do any of that.  Like sit down for an hour to read the ebay rules, make an ebay account, link it to paypal, tell paypal what to do if money magically shows up in my account, find camera, take picture of item, transfer picture to computer, edit picture (crop resize contrast), make description, figure out how to tell them all sales really are final so don't complain to ebay if you don't like it, etc etc.

I had one hour for a whole shelf of old stuff.  Some of it is posted for sale (cheap) in the classifieds forum, everything else is in the trash.   

[Meatwad]

I hardly ever go into the classifieds section and look around. I do have a laptop and a tablet PC that needs more memory, but I have to look and see what it exactly has in there and what type it is

[JimmyC]

I have four candels

[forHIM]

Enviro police:  Mr Eagl, you do know that most places frown upon putting computer gear with it's lead and other toxic parts into the garbage


I am/was amazed at my collection.  It seems every year I'm taking a large box of old gear to the town's clean up day to recycle.

[eagl]

Enviro police:  Mr Eagl, you do know that most places frown upon putting computer gear with it's lead and other toxic parts into the garbage

Yea, I thought about that.  Briefly.  But I live in TX, a state that pretty much doesn't care or make recycling possible for even medium sized cities.  We have one kind of city-wide recycling, a "green bin" which can be used for anything organic (plants) and plain paper, but really nothing else.  And we have to pay $5/month for the privledge of having a green bin.  If they made ANY attempt to assist or enable computer parts recycling, I'd dump my stuff there.  But I can't find anything.  All the way across town is a place to dump plastic and glass, but it takes at least 1 gallon of gas for the round-trip which pretty much makes it better for the environment to just bury the stuff in the dump where at least it is in one place for humans to dig back up 10,000 years from now when we've used up everything and actually NEED to recycle everything.  Having everything that's ever been useful and/or processed collected and buried in dumps is going to look like a pretty smart idea in a few thousand years when they need to dig it back up.

[Butcher]

15 pack SCSI cd player 4x speed, my father ran a BBS back in the late 80s and early 90s and I still have most of the equipment still including my original 386 and 486/50 (486 was bought from summer hours working at micky d's)

Why get rid of it? I don't have any other nick nacks laying around

[Meatwad]

Enviro police:  Mr Eagl, you do know that most places frown upon putting computer gear with it's lead and other toxic parts into the garbage


I am/was amazed at my collection.  It seems every year I'm taking a large box of old gear to the town's clean up day to recycle.

Last stuff I tossed it was around 14 15" CRT monitors. Closest recycling place was 35 minutes away from where I was living at so into the back of a garbage truck it went

[Delirium]

You should of kept the joysticks for parts, particularly the CH ones.

[bigsky]

I still have a working Amiga 500 with the memory upgade card and external disk drive.