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do you keep old old old computer hardware for sentimental value?

I still have my Mitsumi 4802TE burner. It's about seven years old and still works. Ah those were the days, first and only kid in high school with a burner.
 
I wish I did...right now I'm thinking about building a barebones setup just to position in the living room and use as a DVD/VCD/media/mp3 player...

If I hadn't given/thrown away all my old parts, I could probably do it very cheaply 🙁
 
Old ones never go idle for long, there are too many uses for old working PCs. Sold/given to friends, donated to a school/church, tax deduction, and all the little tasks you can give it yourself.
 
Things that have value I sell. Things that have no value I hold on to until they become rare, and then I sell them for profit.
 
I kept my Voodoo 5500 as long as I could but ended up trading it for some router. I loved that huge card with it's dual fans. Something about it made it special, maybe because it was 3dfx's last production card or maybe because it was so frickin huge. Oh well, as long as I have my amiga's...and my C64, and my Packard Bell 15" monitor, I'll be ok.
 
I save them for when I do a charity build. I've got a couple shelves full of old videocards (Riva128's, Voodoo1's, S3's, 2 and 4GB harddrives, PC-100 memory, etc, cables, power supplies, keyboards and mice, etc. Whenever I do a upgrade for someone, If they let me I keep the old case, motherboard, chip, and/or whatever else is good. Eventually I end up with enough to build a machine to donate to someone who has no computer at all.
 
Originally posted by: Kaervak
I still have my Mitsumi 4802TE burner. It's about seven years old and still works. Ah those were the days, first and only kid in high school with a burner.
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Heyyy, I've got one of those, and yes, it still works! 😀
 
I collect old SUN hardware, and have just about every part from the first PC I bought, and the first one I put together. 😎
 
I'm looking for Windows XP drivers for my Rendition card.

I still use my Voodoo5 5500 pci to play diablo 2.
 
I never have "old" stuff lying arround, every time "My" computer is upgraded, the parts taken down filter to one of my dad's two computers, the parts they replace there, filter down either to my mom's computer or to one of my brothers' comps (I have 3 brothers, each with their own). and the cumulative parts left over @ the end of the upgrade food-chain get assembled into a barebones system and donated to chairity/sold/given to friends. It's a beautiful little ecosystem. And it always makes it easy to justify upgrading MY computer (everybody wins!)
 
I keep a few items laying around, usually for T/S. All I've got right now is an Antec 350W PSU though. I had a 9600 Pro and a 1.5Ghz P4 s748 a week ago, but they found a home in my sister's computer.

Ancient antiques I usually don't keep, unless it was a piece of history. I would have kept a V5, if I had one.
 
Originally posted by: Dopefiend
Originally posted by: Kaervak
I still have my Mitsumi 4802TE burner. It's about seven years old and still works. Ah those were the days, first and only kid in high school with a burner.
Click to expand...

Heyyy, I've got one of those, and yes, it still works! 😀
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I just gave my CR4804TE away to a kid who needed a burner. 🙂

- M4H
 
Not for sentimental value but I have mothballed my first computer for the hardware in in. If I should need it, there it is. Anyone want to buy 64 Mbytes of non EDO memory that cost me ~$1200?
 
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