People selling ancient computer parts in classifieds

[foghorn67]

Drives me nuts. I'm looking for that Dell keyboard with scissor keys and the cool volume control. If is one is to be found, I give up. Full of Dell ps/2 keyboards from the year 2000.
And yes, they are 10 bucks.

 

[SAWYER]

What's so special about old keyboards?

 

[xanis]

Drives me nuts. I'm looking for that Dell keyboard with scissor keys and the cool volume control. If is one is to be found, I give up. Full of Dell ps/2 keyboards from the year 2000.
And yes, they are 10 bucks.

One of these?

 

[lxskllr]

What's so special about old keyboards?

They work great. They click decisively, without the mushiness most new keyboards have. They're also built like tanks. They don't budge on the desktop.

 

[blinblue]

It's almost as bad as trying to buy a bicycle on craigslist. I swear 90% of ads are for "vintage" schwinn bikes for like $250. No one wants to buy your stupid, old, heavy, rusty, schwinn for $250. It's maddening trying to weed through listings (thankfully found a good bike deal a month ago, so I don't have to look any more).

 

[zinfamous]

lol. I gave up trying to sell my previous rig on CL, just handed it to a local used PC shop for $25. the case alone was $120. 🙁

 

[Ns1]

lol. I gave up trying to sell my previous rig on CL, just handed it to a local used PC shop for $25. the case alone was $120. 🙁

yeah my $120 lian li went for a whopping $20 on CL (after several weeks)

HATE selling computer parts.

 

[Nebbers]

They work great. They click decisively, without the mushiness most new keyboards have. They're also built like tanks. They don't budge on the desktop.

Yup... better tactile feel, you know exactly the point that the keypress happens because they have switches rather than rubber domes under the keys which are far more consistent. The feel doesn't change over time like cheap ones do, and mechanicals actually improve your accuracy a bit because of all of this.

That, and you sound like you're really getting shit done to anyone who hears you typing 🙂

I never understood the big deal until I tried one out, but I'd never go back.

 

[coldmeat]

I can tell exactly when my comfort curve keys type. PEBKAC

 

[Nebbers]

I can tell exactly when my comfort curve keys type. PEBKAC

Not familiar with that keyboard, but if it's rubber dome keys, see if you feel the same after several years of use.

One of the biggest things about rubber domes is that after a lot of use, the more frequently used keys require a different amount of pressure than the less frequently used ones. Worse for RSI issues

 

[coldmeat]

Not familiar with that keyboard, but if it's rubber dome keys, see if you feel the same after several years of use.

One of the biggest things about rubber domes is that after a lot of use, the more frequently used keys require a different amount of pressure than the less frequently used ones. Worse for RSI issues

It's over 4 years old now.

 

[Jimmah]

I put old stuff on CS all the time, but at really really low prices, most of the time it's the same guy buying it all up. I guess some people can't resist mb+cpu+ram combos for 20$.

 

[lxskllr]

I put old stuff on CS all the time, but at really really low prices, most of the time it's the same guy buying it all up. I guess some people can't resist mb+cpu+ram combos for 20$.

A P4 class computer is easily worth $20 if you have the need for it. You can still do a lot with those machines.

 

[iCyborg]

I couldn't even get rid of a CRT for $10. Wound up e-Recycling it.

I was moving in September and put an ad on craigslist for a 17" flat-screen CRT giving it for free for pick-up, so I wouldn't have to take it with me, I already have 2 LCDs. The ad was there for 2 weeks and I had 0 responses 🙂
In the end I left it outside for garbage collection...

 

[Nebbers]

A P4 class computer is easily worth $20 if you have the need for it. You can still do a lot with those machines.

True that. Plenty powerful enough for many peoples' browsing/email needs, or as an emulation machine

 

[Red Squirrel]

The only way to sell a CRT is to someone planing to build a tesla coil or something.

My workplace had these huge 21 inch CRTs, they had trouble giving them away. 15 years ago it would have been the cat's ass.

 

[lxskllr]

15 years ago it would have been the cat's ass.

That's the end that doesn't puke, right?

 

[zinfamous]

yeah my $120 lian li went for a whopping $20 on CL (after several weeks)

HATE selling computer parts.

yeha, but that was just the case.

I unloaded:

AMD 939+
X800 XL,
Creative Audigy 4
1 GB DDR2
all the drives and such (DVD & DVDR)
semi-busted Samsung 19" T191+ (paid ~$600 for that, new. lol)--the DVI in doesn't work
creative 5.1 speaker system...

...$25 😀

 

[Red Squirrel]

That's the end that doesn't puke, right?

LOL yeah, the end that only lets something out once a day, not 10 times.

Wait, food goes in the other end, comes out 10x from that end, and 1x the other end. You can't explain that. Aliens?

 

[AdamK47]

Those used Dell keyboards were probably $10 when new.

 

[Sonikku]

I had a CRT to get rid of recently, worked fine. Based on how many I saw on craigslist I couldn't have gotten more than $5. Went into the trash. Sad really how "perfectly good" stuff is just so useless now that it's worth nothing.

Should have given it to salvation army or impossible dream or something. Lot's of poor people tend to go there first when their display dies and they have no cash for a replacement.

Honestly, I like CRT's as a whole. I'd still be using my Sony FW900 over my asus LED if it still worked today. It's 16x10 aspect ratio, wide range of native resolutions and 1920x1200 max was and is beyond what my 1080p flat panal has to offer. (lower res content especially looks godawful upscaled while the CRT could display it all natively) It also had better colors and significantly better blacks. Granted, this was a professional grade CRT for Graphic Designers I bought on the cheap that was probably in the 2 grand range for it's time I'm comparing to Billy Bob budget TN panel, but honestly these displays were not without their charms. Only downer was the lady had a fast ass. 🙂

 

[AmdEmAll]

I have tons of 10-year old hardware that will be going in the trash very soon. 🙁 I'll try to sell the SCSI drives and cards for whatever I can get for them, but the crappy PCI video cards with the 8MB of memory are trash. Out of all the hobbies I have had, computers has truly been the biggest money black hole/poor return on investment.

Have any old cpu's that you don't need? Im collecting them for a project.

 

[SAWYER]

I have a cousin who has been getting old computers and is claiming he is extracting gold from the cpu's

 

[TakeNoPrisoners]

One of these?

I had one of those without the armrest.

 

[Fritzo]

Dang, you mean I overpaid for my blazing fast P3 1ghz with an astounding 128mb of memory??

My phone has more than that 😀