i got 17 desktop computers from 1989---95

i a ready took apart the towers put everthing in a different pile an plus found 2 boxes of brand new pci cards new but old 1997 i have space i also have the monitors printers keyboards havent touch them yet
my question is do i cut the fingers off everything or just sell the cards with the fingers ?
do i cut all the electric cords off but they dont look like copper? more like silver type of metal ?

computers from 89-95? brand new pci cards from 97? what kind of pci cards? do you know anything about them ? did you even look? 15 computer years is about like 15 dog years.
too bad you didn't take care of the monitors and keyboards first, which you'd been better off trashin than the boards and pc's. my question is who's fingers did you want to cut

Good haul Erik! Follow mech's advice and read. I wouldn't be cutting ANY thing. You might get more than scrap value out of the cards. But it all depends on what they are. Do your research. Depending on what kind of cards (modem, Video, NIC) you may have to sit on them until you find a buyer

Hey Erick, see if you can find a brand name and a number on the board, put those into a google search, along with "ebay" in the search. See if any are listed there. If you get there and it's just to a single listing, put the name and numbers into an ebay search(make sure it's set to search in "all categories") Once you find a list of that boards postings, go down the left side of the page to the "completed listings" and click that. On the completed listings look for the ended price in green, those are the ones that sold.

Also, if it doesn't show/isn't listed on ebay, either they aren't many in circulation/demand, or you have the only one left in the world, from there try a www search to see what you can learn of it there

I can't see the connectors on them, but top left looks like a serial/printer port, top right like an early graphics card, not sure about the bottom one

You can strip those down and sell them at mere scrap prices, or do some searching and possibly profit a good bit more, it just depends on the interest you have in it and the time/effort you care to invest

Those are ISA slot cards not PCI slot cards. They look like Printer or Com port cards.
Nice find on the 486 CPU's

Ahhh! I see Adaptec on that lower board, think it might be an SCSI controller card. You'll definitely want to check those for vintage prices

bear yea i think is a SCSI controller card but i cant find no info on it i check on ebay nothing found

You might consider joining the vintage computer forum and asking about it there Eric. If you do ebay just post it there and see how it does, might be pleasantly surprised. Can you post the numbers from it here? You might even find some info on it from the adaptec website

Silver coloured copper wire is 'tinned copper wire'.