Today's find

Originally Posted by sixteenacrewood

Thanks again Bear
yes I did searches on several of the board part numbers, no info
same with company google searches

the cpu is of interest to me because of the logo printed in white large letters, most photos I find say I486DX

this one is just I486...why, is it an early model? and yes I saw the DX in the smaller print

I need the money, so I'll hunt down vacumn cleaners and carve some more bowls, maybe save this one for a while

if you were to sell this one off for someone else to scrap, what would you ask for? Don't consider shipping

would anyone venture a value

Most of the weight to those older servers is just the steel case and heavy duty power supply, not much money there.



The 486dx/25 was the first mainstream 486 with FPU sold, and they went for a pretty penny new. ALR was a decent company before being purchased by Gateway who in turn got purchased by Emachines. What makes that system interesting is it is EISA, a brand collectors might like, the early proprietary oddball way they stuck RAM and CPU on upgradable cards. As far as value, everyone here can tell you what a LB of motherboard is worth but collector value is whatever somebody feels like spending at any given time and doesn't have any logic to it. Ebay will not have a value because these systems were never made in major quantities so they rarely go up for sale and most have been recycled (rarity doesn't always mean it is worth much either).

Originally Posted by unknownk

Ebay will not have a value

Ebay has the market, and listed properly, that's where you'll get the best price for it

Originally Posted by Bear

Ebay has the market, and listed properly, that's where you'll get the best price for it

I meant ebay will probably not have any sold in the past 30 days to look up a value point, and even if they did values for the same piece of equipment vary a ton every time they infrequently go for sale.

Ebay isn't allways the best place for selling collectables anyway (but you do get the most eyeballs at ebay). Case in point an Apple 1 motherboard that hit $30K on ebay sells for 10x that amount at Sothebys auction house.

2-3X scrap value? The ones I've allowed to name their price wanted the free price, not 2-3X scrap. One I even offered for free, and said just send me a stamped padded envelope and it's yours. I never heard from him again.
That's why I recommend just letting the market name the price, currently known as ebay auctions, since they're the only place with the volume of traffic it takes to do that, and why i recommend the ten days on less offered items, to give as many as possible the chance to find or run across it. I also highly recommend using the pre-listed feature, or whatever it's called. That gives your listing a big head start over just listing it and waiting until it finally shows up there. It used to cost a dime, and that was the best dime you could spend on ebay