austin86 wrote:
marked141 wrote:
You're not wrong. The trick is finding anyone who's interested in it beyond scrap.
indeed. doesn't help with how cranky the retro tech community has become, most everyone will gripe about us scrappers but also don't like us coming along and trying to sell or giveaway stuff on their forums and communities and some sites/groups going as far to not let anyone sell stuff at allm. and worse is how most of the vintage/retro computers sites are ran but some rather not so nice folks to say the least.
Wile people into vintage computers are out there and willing to buy, places to sell stuff is limited to a select few sites like amibay, vcfed and ebay. amibay and vcfed don't just allow you to walk in and sell stuff and a lot of folks in the retro computer hobby tend to gripe about ebay. so finding buyers can be hard.@NoWaistedSpace there's a fella on youtube, mike tech, he buys bulk e waste and computer lots from the 90s and early 00s, he might be worth contacting too if you want to sell everything at once.
Ebay is nothing but a den of thieves who sell nothing but junk when it comes to electronics. I've been ripped off in some way about 8 times since covid.
It used to be a good place, not anymore. I mess with stereos and music equipment. They ask between 25 and 45.00 for 1 driver for a Bose 901 speaker that you always have to replace the surrounds on. There are 18 drivers in a set of 901's. I own 6 sets of cabinets. I was lucky, my brother had bought a whole case of drivers many years ago. They want 45.00/pc for new knock offs. Hell, the stands and eq cost as much as the cabinets today. If you can even find original stands. Ebay is selling bars stool bases and calling them authentic.
It's 300.00 min for original chrome stands and they will have rust on them. If 901's are set up correctly, you can't beat the quality of the sound. Most have never listened to them the correct way. I run 2 sets as amplifier speakers for guitar. Fantastic sound. Right dead in the middle of the guitar frequency range.
You either love them or hate them. It's all about the room set up. You can't tell where the sound is coming. They can run on 20 -400 watts. I have Marantz and JVC stereos from the 70's. You can't the sound quality and the look of the old stuff. The want rid of us Boomers as quick as they can for some reason.
Sorry, I'm babbling about nonsense. That's what old people do. lol
People should listen to us, we've been and done that.