Old IBM machines?

I recently got hold of an old IBM computer that had quite a few gold bearing cards. A processor card with 7 processors. A I/O controller and a couple of others should I be throwing these in with my other scrap mother boards? I currently get £5.30 a kilo but wasn't sure if they were worth more. Can anyone help?

Originally Posted by miked

First check ebay for sold items. I have found that the IBM material sells where the clone materal doesn't. Spend more time reading the old threads in the electronics section before you tear down things that may have far more than scrap value. Mike.

Thanks for the reply.

I took the PC apart because the case was broke and 2 of the processors had been dislodged. Ebay isn't always ideal as i can't always identify the parts not to mention the fact its more time consuming than throwing it in a pile I will post a link of some pics anyway as these will all go to the refiner who buys our stock. I'd just like to know if they have a scrap value higher than what i stated earlier, £5.30 p/kg. That's around $3.75 a pound

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I haven't removed the RAM on the second image but i was curious as to what was in the big silver squares on the board. I would also remove the processors but have no idea on a value for these as i have never seen ones like this before.

Looks like a PS/2 era server of some kind, that model is on the case?

Originally Posted by unknownk

Looks like a PS/2 era server of some kind, that model is on the case?

The case was badly damaged, i pulled the computer from our frag feed.

here's the scsi card on ebay IBM 31G9729 RISC I O SCSI Controller Card | eBay

I was thinking it was an AIX RISC machine, they are rare these days but probably not that collectable (judging from the amount of posts in the ps2 newsgroup). Should go for a few bucks as scrap I guess.

Originally Posted by miked

First check ebay for sold items. I have found that the IBM material sells where the clone materal doesn't. Spend more time reading the old threads in the electronics section before you tear down things that may have far more than scrap value. Mike.

I need to take the time to do this too, I have an old IBM 5150 sitting on the bench, everything works. I would like like to get some old disks to try in it before to test the floppy drives.
My problem is I only have DOS disks on 3-1/2 and HD-5-1/4 disks. These old things only read the 360 or 720 disks I think.

Do you have the case top as well? If so PM me