Steve wrote: ↑Sun Aug 23, 2020 11:26 pm
Holy crap those model M's would have been worth 10-15,000 on today's market. Who would have thought back then that they would end up like gold dust.
That's why it a huge regret, I still got other crap from back then sadly
It was all IBM stuff in that place and it looked old and dirty, it was some kind of data entry customer support/database they was being used in, from what I could tell because no one wiped the hard drives and there was spreadsheets of all kinds of info about the company and customers and this was no small company... it's the local water board
There was some kind of headless server running these things, I presume it was the daddy because it had 2 floppy drives and a load of hard drives.
The 486s had token ring network cards, useless at the time so in the bin.
The memory was removed from the PCs and used in STE 4mb upgrades, the 850mb hard drives ended up in various Amigas, some of the 486s got a new life as Coyote Linux firewall/routers, the PSUs went all over the place mostly arcade related, the monitors were dumped they was tiny and looked like something from the 70s.
The keyboards went, because at the time you could buy a keyboard, mouse, speaker set for like £5/6 delivered brand new in a box who would want these old things? some of them was really odd too, had extra function keys, weird layouts.
We was using the mass of keyboard leads as dreadlocks, prob get done for that these days
Other regrets :
Sold my 1040 STE with a accelerator & ram upgrade and 100s of disks for £60! around 2007/8 I think
Collection of about 20 jamma arcade boards, supergun, arcade sticks £150
desperate times
