Seagate ST-1102A Hard Drive, Shuttle XPC, PM8M3-V Motherboard

**bcrepurposing** · 01-07-2014, 08:47 AM

Hard drive:
Unless it has something special about it or is corporate type use, scrap it.

The Shuttle X:
if I am guessing at what you are trying to describe they were a compact computer for gaming / lan parties and are indeed a computer. they were termed "shuttle" because you took them wit you when you went somewhere and shuttled them around.

Look inside. they are very tightly packed but you should find the same standard goodies. These parts are worth looking up before scrapping. They require low profile part that is often more expensive and dense. it should contain mid to high grade boards, ram, finger cards / expansion boards, harddrive, ribbon cable, some have cd/dvd drives others do not, iron, etc.

Motherboard:
Unless you buy a new board / CPU combo, many of the better boards all come bare (no CPU / Heatsink). I would not rely on the board being new because it is static wrapped. I repair computers and will commonly put used boards in the static bags for later use if they worked and it was a upgrade. Not saying there is no value if it looks like it is in good shape, you can attempt sale as new but it is helpful to have box and packaging / disks if this were true. You can test it and sell it as used, less money this way but also better saleability due to the fact you can guarantee it to work (list as new-other, used one to test to verify working condition in description.) or just scrap it for what you can get.

hope that helps.

**Bear** · 01-07-2014, 12:43 PM

Originally Posted by bcrepurposing

Hard drive:
Unless it has something special about it or is corporate type use, scrap it.

I wouldn't be hasty to scrap anything computer related from the 80s, I'd say that alone makes it somewhat special, and how do you know a corporate used one from another? I've certainly never seen that information in the model numbers, or even on the label.

A quick google on the drive, and a peek on ebay only returned one completed listing, unsold@ $5(didn't check shipping cost) -non working - for parts, it would be my guess most anyone searching for such a drive already has at least one just like it. Any vintage HDD of 89MB, tested and working, should easily bring well above scrap, and they're not that difficult to test. I didn't study into that either(I'm kind of in a hurry here) but search results stated IDE, it should plug right up with any system using IDE, simply run a disk check for starters

I didn't look at your other items either, but good luck with it Burt

**bigburtchino** · 01-08-2014, 11:53 AM

Had another long day yesterday so no pictures yet! I secured this dumpster last week, so I rechecked it yesterday. My thoughts now, is someone has bought out a "failed computer repair shop". I have learned that dumpsters can tell a story, never do you get full book but maybe a chapter or two. I now have retrieved four large boxes of carefully packed computer stuff! All showing me, that it was of value to original owner. Also found boxes of financial and record keeping information from failed company. I don't like to read about someone else's personal information. I did obtain enough to know what the man did for a living. Starting as a radio/tv repair in the 60,s and advancing into computer repairs. There was more boxes of paper than valuable computer stuff. I'm in the process of having all boxes of paper shredded. I "think" all of this has been in storage for about ten years. The computer stuff dates from mid 80's and ends about 2004. Bcrepurosing you were 100% correct on that Shuttle X. Did some research (just a little) last night on Ebay. It apears to me, that I could do really good selling the individual parts. Just the outer metal shell recently sold for $20 plus shipping. As I couldn't resist did a complete breakdown of unit early this morning. I have no interest in "gaming", personally think this is today's biggest waste of time (my opinion). I will take there money and put it to good use (thank you very much). The cooling setup and heatsink in this unit is amazing! I'm familiar with advanced and highly engineered electronics, but they were in very expensive and flight safety avionics, not what is basically a toy (call it what you want)! The motherboard (MSI PM8MS-V) is brand new. As I stated in first post it was wrapped in anti-static bag. To be more specific, sealed with tamper proof tape (anti-static). This mother is brand new, from the factory.I know cleanroom clean when I see it, have electronics degree, FCC license with radar endorsement and 20+ years in aviation avionics. Not trying to say I know anything, just a little personal background about myself. You were 100% correct on most of what I'm finding here. Someone purposely packed these items after removing used, working items for future use. I would have prefered to keep motherboard factory sealed, had to open it to identify contents. So far have found two other brand new items, both are 56x CD-ROM's (model #EL56, made Ja. 2003). These are factory sealed and new, As i can read info I'm leaving them sealed. As I have no way to test any of these items, plan to sell as is. Everything used, looks to me to be A+ shape, carefully boxed and sealed for the last ten years. Bear I agree with everything you said, I'm going to take one of my old office computers, making myself a test bench. Been wanting to set up an E & E bench for since I started processing E-wASTE. May even get this brain thinking about electrons again, if you don't use it you loose it.

Couple of new questions: 1. Western Digital Cavair 31000, model WDAC31000-OOH, P/N 99-004143-000, MFG. Date Nov. 94 Singapore. 2. Colorado 350 inter tape drive, model jumbo 350, P/N DJ35C, MFG. date Mar. 95 USA. 3. Floppy drives different models and companies (found so far 2o+) 3.5 and 3.25 all made in Japan/Thailand. 4. lots of cords, cables and internal connection cables. brand new still packaged. 5. Manuals, CD's and Floppy's. This is how I'm finding this load, Boxes of components (4), Box of Manuals (1), Boxes of cable/wire (3) Box of CD's and Floppy's. I will do my own research as much as possible and share what I learn. I'm not a computer person. Would welcome any of your thoughts. I'm thinking some of the CD's are drivers and programs for shop use. Thanks everybody! (sorry about rambling, spelling and no pic's - just a lot going on).