On Wed, 21 Jul 2021 at 18:00, Grant Taylor via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > > I suspect there are more people restoring ISA systems than PCI systems. > But that's probably a matter of time.
True. What I was thinking of was the relatively narrow gap between PCI systems starting to appear and most of them gaining built-in NICs. > I doubt it's likely, but (traditional) WORM drives are not out of the > question. (I'm not counting CDs / DVDs in the /traditional/ WORM mix, > despite many early writable drives being exactly that.) Fair point. I'd expect SCSI but it's certainly possible. > Sadly, that might not be enough to discern things. I've seen similar > cases used for a lot of different internal components. No, I meant holding a NIC in one's hand and looking at it. Fat contact strips: probably ISA. 2 sets, with thin parts interleaving 2 sets at different levels on the edge connector: EISA Narrow contact strips: PCI. Which variant, of course, has a bigger option... PCI, 64-bit PCI, PCI-X, PCI-E, etc. > The OP (or > someone else on their behalf) is almost certainly going to need to get > more details to share with would be buyers. Strongly agreed. > Um ... that's not true. I just purchased 10Base? cards specifically for > the AUI ports to connect to my 10Base5 / "Thicknet" segment. Depending > on price, I'd probably walk away from a swap meet with more too. > (!) OK. Few people will want? ;-) > It depends. I've talked with a handful of people wanting some sort of > CD-ROM or their retro computers. They prefer the faster IDE drives. > But they would rather have the slower IDE drives than nothing. So I > believe that there is a reasonable chance that CD-ROMs sill have some value. OK. > I still see some value in 2D cards. I'd lay down a $5 bill for a PCI 2D > card like I had years ago. -- If I'm willing to do it, I assume that > there are others that are willing to do it too. OK, fair enough. > It depends on the capacity and price. And /known/ status of the drive. > "For parts"? Probably not much value at all. Maybe for in a lot for > someone else to test. "Known working / passed SpinRite Level 4" much > more likely. Yes, true. Known good, recently tested, will be worth much more. > They aren't IDE, but I suspect that drives in IBM PS/2s that were known > to be working would be worth more than the smaller IDE drives. I think > that mostly means ESDI and SCSI. Oh, yes, those are like hen's teeth. > Though it sounds like the OP wasn't interested in doing this. As such, > I suspect that the OP is probably looking for someone to acquire (large > portions of) the lot and let that buyer test / resell things with > details and shipping to lots of places. Well yes. Someone in the 2600 mag FB group recently posted a few pics of a collection, including multiple _boxed_ IBM PS/2s, and said they wanted rid of them all as one lot. In parts, it was 100% definitely thousands of dollars' worth. As a job lot? Lucky to find someone, I suspect. -- Liam Proven – Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk – gMail/gTalk/gHangouts: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/Facebook/LinkedIn/Flickr: lproven – Skype: liamproven UK: +44 7939-087884 – ČR (+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal): +420 702 829 053
