Got a call last night to clean out an office....Wish me luck I hope it's more computers than copiers, printers, etc.....
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Got a call last night to clean out an office....Wish me luck I hope it's more computers than copiers, printers, etc.....
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Luck!
Metal Recycling Entrepreneur
yeah too! lotsa luck mike
Good luck, let us know what you got!
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Okay here is the lowdown....Mainly printers, filing cabinets, metal desk etc....But the big find was two gigantic industrial printers.....One was an IBM 5360 the other a Decision Data Band Printer 6811.....The IBM was so heavy I had to hook my 9k winch to it.....That was with three men cleaning out the office space....It must weigh at least 1000lb easy
My question is however does anyone have any experience with these huge industial printers or do I have a gigantic piece of scrap metal which is not bad considering todays prices.....Any info let me know
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Start here, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System/36. Looks like there are two rare processors and rare memory in each unit. The memory alone sells for $96.00. Usually these old printers have a large sheet of Al also. 1000#'s scrap value = $100. You could possibly get this by just pullling out the memory and CPU's and then scrap the rest.
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nice haul!
Old dogs care about you even when you make mistakes;
God bless little children while they're still too young to hate
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Not much of an ebay guy....Is that where I should try to sell it?....Originally Posted by Jeremiah
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I would say yes sell it on ebay. Not the whole printer just the memory and other boards.
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Ok how would I know they are working or just sell as un tested as I have no way to test this ancient equipment....LOL
Metal Recycling Entrepreneur
plug it up, turn it on, see if the lights flash
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LOL....I would love to but the cords were everywhere in the way and got cut in the process of moving...Oh well I will decide what to do with these monsters in the morningplug it up, turn it on, see if the lights flash
Crt & Ewaste Specialist
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rewire the cord its not hard
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This beast is a monster remember.....Well over 1000 lbs and moving it around, rewiring etc is just not something I can handle bymyself easily.....I think I might just tear it down and get what I can from it and move on....It was free and was only about 10 miles from the house so either way it's pure profit....Thanks for all your advice and opinions it just boils down to the size of this thing vs. me being able to move it around....LOL
Metal Recycling Entrepreneur
lol, nooo, inquiring minds Need to know! lol
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LOL I to am intrigued after reading the wikapedia article...This computer cost over $ 100,000 new....This thing is like a super computer from the 80's....I am going to tear into tommorow after I dump a bunch of the other stuff at the yard.....I to am interested and never had anything similar to this
Metal Recycling Entrepreneur
cool! photos, man, photos!i was thinking printer, that'll be a cool trip looking in that thing
hek! i'm hooked on it now, i wonder how big the hard drive is in it? i found one in an old nasa computer that weighed 30 pounds. If you've got the 5360-A with the 4mhz CPU, that things probly solid gold! lol (and certainly worth more as a collectors item) I did best with stuff like that using 10 day auction format, starting it (always the pre-list setup too, so it would hit the ground running, and not have to wait 30 minutes for it to show up in the listings, and already be on page 45 or 50 before it even started showing up) early on friday afternoon, then it ran through 2 weekends and a full week, ending on a monday afternoon ( amazing how many spend monday and friday afternoons checking out the sales from their office
Last edited by Bear; 02-26-2012 at 08:21 PM.
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The first model of the System/36 was the 5360. It weighed 700 lb (318 kg), cost (US) $100,000 and up, and is believed to have had processor speeds of about 2 MHz and 8 MHz for its two processors, which in 1983 was faster than the "Personal Computers" on the market
Metal Recycling Entrepreneur
it said there were 4 5360s 5360A-5360D
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All mine says is IBM 5360 and is just like the pic on the wikepedia page
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