the museum load

so last month a friend of my uncles boss died and said hey were cleaning out this house and got some stuff for ya and awesome enough 3 truck loads of mixed stuff and was happy. he contacted me a few days later and says his daughter has a bunch of computers and gave her you number and said alright cool. well a few weeks later to the beginning of the month and I head over and before she even opened the door she warns me there is a lot and I said ok and the revel and omg a huge pile 14ft high going back to the 60's of computers. over 300 in all and I was not even the first crack at these a company about 80miles from me not naming names refused to pick them up with out charging her $10each monitor and no these are not just separate monitors these are built it not just all in ones but nice, well horrid shape but nice built in units a few screws and boom its off. along with $50 in boards and ics. I call this the museum load because the fact it could go into one but into my collection instead, like a huge hp hard drive about 70lbs with 14in platters, so awesome boards and lots of ics and stuff. here are some of the pics below and will be adding more as I go cause it will take a bit to get through the load but wow not fast enough I put up one 10lb lot on ebay of heavy gold boards with ics and sold for $225 already. its taken 15 truck loads so far and when they go through more of this building these were in she will call me for the rest of what they can find.

the huge hp hard drive
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this is the 14in platters and the arm even has gold ics and hp in gold
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some of the heavy ic boards that are yummy to find
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some of the heavy gold boards
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some of the loads
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yep there is some things that are that I have set aside some huge hard drives 14in and some 8in ones as well. boards ics and other good things but most is just scrap since its in very bad shape some I have had to wash off so as not to send out with mice poo on it lol even some had some edges part bit on

Holy cow, what a payday. I think I would've keeled over if somebody loaded me up like that.

Let us know how it turns out when you've wrapped it all up. Seems like the guy that gave that woman your number hooked you up solid.

hell of a deal you got going on there travis

drooling????? i need a cold shower! sheshhhhhh dats some hot pics

E-waste porn!!! LOL

OK, I know this is an old thread, but I'm new here and just stumbled on it. Ouch! You're not kidding -- that really is a museum load. It contained several of the most collectible vintage computers. In the last photo, you have a Commodore PET and a dual floppy disk drive to go with it. They look like this: Computer Jamboree - Commodore PET Model 4032
There's also a piece from one of the most valuable vintage systems in the world! This guy: http://www.oldcomputers.arcula.co.uk...es/pdp8301.jpg
The last 2 of those sold on eBay (as is, for parts) at $1,800-$3,200.
If more pieces from the system were in there, they would be very valuable too. There's probably more great stuff in there; can't really figure it all out from the pix.
I wish I had been around here in June so I could have given you a heads up. Anyway, I hope you did OK with the load and didn't scrap it all! Did you put some of those on eBay?

If I remember correctly, he didn't scrap anything that didn't have to be. It ended up making his year.

Awesome. Based on those pix, that load would make anybody's year! I just want to get the word out on that old computer equipment. I don't know what the scrap values are -- I'm still learning about that stuff -- but most of those really old pieces are valuable as-is. Even just the boards from some systems are worth a lot.

I'm still very much learning scraping period. Found two old finds in last four months, Old medical MRI scanners and old computer items. I had to scrap some of the medical stuff because just need the space. Now wish I would have found space, as most was better as is, could possibly even have been still serviceable. I have some components still intact, Monitors, lens units and some small interface devices. I took apart all the rest to save space in shop, selling only the metals and wire. Have all boards and components, but have pulled most of non-soldered gold plated chips, transistors, chrystalls, and diodes etc. What I'm finding in anything that's old, e-scrap or other found items, if you can take your time and learn about it first. Anything that someone else needs or collects and nobody makes anymore, has far greater value than scrap. Value does not always equal a dollar amount to me anyway, lots of "VALUE TYPES".