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Gareth Tuckwell1

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(Msg. 1) Posted: Wed Oct 27, 2004 1:22 pm
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Does anyone think it is worth my while trying to sell any of these old bits
on EBay...

PCI Hauppauge Win/TV card
PCI S3 Trio/Virge 2Mb (Maybe 4Mb) graphics card
ISA Sound Blaster 16 card
ISA Sound Blaster AWE 64 card
ISA Teletext card
486 Motherboard with DX2/50 chip and some (not sure - maybe 4 or 8 MB) RAM.
4x SCSI CD writer with SCSI controller card + cables
External 56k voice/fax speakerphone modem
Trust Spycam - webcam
1.7Gb Fujitsu HD
850MB WD HD
6.4GB Maxtor HD

Do you think they would sell, or would I be wasting my time - too old to be
of any use to anyone!

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CBFalconer

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(Msg. 2) Posted: Wed Oct 27, 2004 3:15 pm
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Gareth Tuckwell wrote:
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 > Does anyone think it is worth my while trying to sell any of these
 > old bits on EBay...
 >
 > PCI Hauppauge Win/TV card
 > PCI S3 Trio/Virge 2Mb (Maybe 4Mb) graphics card
 > ISA Sound Blaster 16 card
 > ISA Sound Blaster AWE 64 card
 > ISA Teletext card
 > 486 Motherboard with DX2/50 chip and some (not sure - maybe 4 or 8 MB) RAM.
 > 4x SCSI CD writer with SCSI controller card + cables
 > External 56k voice/fax speakerphone modem
 > Trust Spycam - webcam
 > 1.7Gb Fujitsu HD
 > 850MB WD HD
 > 6.4GB Maxtor HD
 >
 > Do you think they would sell, or would I be wasting my time -
 > too old to be of any use to anyone!

I'm still using most of those things, but I wouldn't pick any of
them up for over a buck or so. Some may be needed by some to keep
old machinery rolling, i.e. under 8G HDs that don't hang the bios.
A 486 with ISA cards is very handy for running embedded machinery,
such as programmers, etc.

Better to advertise your location and make them free to a good
home, assuming you want to declutter.

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kony

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(Msg. 3) Posted: Wed Oct 27, 2004 4:21 pm
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On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 16:47:14 GMT, "Gareth Tuckwell"
wrote:

 >Does anyone think it is worth my while trying to sell any of these old bits
 >on EBay...
 >
 >PCI Hauppauge Win/TV card
 >PCI S3 Trio/Virge 2Mb (Maybe 4Mb) graphics card
 >ISA Sound Blaster 16 card
 >ISA Sound Blaster AWE 64 card
 >ISA Teletext card
 >486 Motherboard with DX2/50 chip and some (not sure - maybe 4 or 8 MB) RAM.
 >4x SCSI CD writer with SCSI controller card + cables
 >External 56k voice/fax speakerphone modem
 >Trust Spycam - webcam
 >1.7Gb Fujitsu HD
 >850MB WD HD
 >6.4GB Maxtor HD
 >
 >Do you think they would sell, or would I be wasting my time - too old to be
 >of any use to anyone!
 >

Most of the parts aren't worth shipping cost alone.
You could try selling the whole "box" full, not setting a
minimum price. Someone might pay $20 for the WinTV card
alone, but it's just a guess, find what similar offerings
are selling for.
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Mac Cool

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(Msg. 4) Posted: Wed Oct 27, 2004 7:24 pm
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Gareth Tuckwell:

 > Does anyone think it is worth my while trying to sell any of these
 > old bits on EBay...

I probably wouldn't bother with ebay, the fees are too high for piddly
stuff like this. Try to sell it as a lot locally. I would ask for $20 OBO
and take whatever you can get.
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(Msg. 5) Posted: Sat Oct 30, 2004 11:30 pm
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Gareth Tuckwell wrote:

 > PCI Hauppauge Win/TV card

 > PCI S3 Trio/Virge 2Mb (Maybe 4Mb) graphics card
 > ISA Sound Blaster 16 card
 > ISA Sound Blaster AWE 64 card
 > ISA Teletext card
 > 486 Motherboard with DX2/50 chip and some (not sure - maybe 4 or 8 MB)
 > RAM. 4x SCSI CD writer with SCSI controller card + cables

Waste of time for all of the above, except the TV Card (don't know about
that).

 > External 56k voice/fax speakerphone modem

People still need these. You might get something for it.

 > Trust Spycam - webcam

Depends on quality of image etc.

 > 1.7Gb Fujitsu HD

Waste of time.

 > 850MB WD HD

Waste of time.

 > 6.4GB Maxtor HD

$5.00 for this.

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Gareth Tuckwell1

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(Msg. 6) Posted: Thu Nov 04, 2004 1:11 pm
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"Gareth Tuckwell" wrote in message

 > Does anyone think it is worth my while trying to sell any of these old
 > bits on EBay...
 >
 > PCI Hauppauge Win/TV card
 > PCI S3 Trio/Virge 2Mb (Maybe 4Mb) graphics card
 > ISA Sound Blaster 16 card
 > ISA Sound Blaster AWE 64 card
 > ISA Teletext card
 > 486 Motherboard with DX2/50 chip and some (not sure - maybe 4 or 8 MB)
 > RAM.
 > 4x SCSI CD writer with SCSI controller card + cables
 > External 56k voice/fax speakerphone modem
 > Trust Spycam - webcam
 > 1.7Gb Fujitsu HD
 > 850MB WD HD
 > 6.4GB Maxtor HD
 >
 > Do you think they would sell, or would I be wasting my time - too old to
 > be of any use to anyone!

The general concensus was that it would be a waste of money listing them on
Ebay, but they are having a free listing day, so I have listed these items
if anyone is interested!

I didn't bother with the hard disks as posting them would probably break
them - any advice here? There used to be a way to 'park heads' on a hard
disk, so it could be transported - can this still be done?
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(Msg. 7) Posted: Thu Nov 04, 2004 3:33 pm
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On Thu, 04 Nov 2004 12:11:04 GMT, "Gareth Tuckwell"
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 >I didn't bother with the hard disks as posting them would probably break
 >them - any advice here? There used to be a way to 'park heads' on a hard
 >disk, so it could be transported - can this still be done?
 >

Head automatically park on drives that age, they might
survive if packed in a lot of foam, 2+ inches around all
sides and/or bubble wrap. New drives survive shipping so
older should be ok too unless they were half in the grave
already.
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