Todays Grab with pics and a question.

Met up with a gentleman who contacted me stating he has some "older" computers and a tote of parts. The drive was about 30 minutes each way and a 1.50 toll. Total of 6 towers of various makes all nothing older that the early 90's and 5 laptops, all older models. The tote turned out to have 19lbs of motherboards with cpus in tact, 8.5 lbs of finger cards and about 5 lbs of mixed wire. We agreed to meet up again in a week or two because he still has a bunch of "older" stuff. I have a question on how to deal with pic #4. It is soldered to the board. All of the cpu's pictured came from the boards in the tote, still have to dive into the complete towers yet. Thanks for any advice on #4!

This is always nice to see on top of the pile.




All loaded up


Another nice one


Leave it be?


I have no clue what this is lol!


A handsome batch, the bottom one is my personal favorite


Bottums up!

Originally Posted by PartTimeScrapper

OK pic 4. That TI (Texas Instrument) chip should come of if memory serves me right. It should be in a socket just like the socket above it in the pic. Just be easy with it and it should pry out. Then I would think the rest of the board would be a finger board.

Ill give it a shot today. Thanks.

Originally Posted by olddude

very nice get.

Thanks Old dude, hope you feeling well!

You can trim that finger off the motherboard with the ti chip on it and remove the ics that are in sockets on the other boards without downgrading them.

In picture #5 I done a quick google search and this is what I come up with. Appian Technology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Maybe you can get some more information from this page.

Hope it helps.

if you remove the one in pic 5 you would downgrade the board as its integrated, you should be able to sell those boards as trimmed fingerboards since there high grade with no fingers

looks like a nice pick-up.. love finding 486's 386's. I'm still looking for the pro though.

did you have to pay for your items?

Originally Posted by PartTimeScrapper

OK pic 4. That TI (Texas Instrument) chip should come of if memory serves me right. It should be in a socket just like the socket above it in the pic. Just be easy with it and it should pry out. Then I would think the rest of the board would be a finger board.

I tried to pop it off tonight, she is soldered on there. The one next to it is a socket however. It was worth a try.

Thanks to all for the advice. This is a learning process. Could not ask for better field of advice than on this forum. My 10 year old found the pentium pro in a tower he was dismantling. His jaw dropped when he pulled it off the board. I told him the payout on it is his, lol.