From: not@telling.you.invalid
Adrian Caspersz wrote:
> I'm about to ditch a boat load of Windows-XP/7 hardware that is
> currently too modern (Core2Duo) to be called retro.
>
> * Will it ever be be retro in future, and worth hanging onto?
Probably, but it's impossible to value what hanging onto is worth
to you. As it is earlier this year I sold three motherboards from
around that era on Ebay. Each was tested for a few hours with
CPU stress tests, memtest, GPU memtest, and connecting things to
all the ports, to sell them as working for around $50. But then one
was returned as "was working sorta, now it's not", and another with
photos of it not recognising the (surely way too new for the BIOS
drivers) USB memory stick they wanted it to boot Windows from. In
the end with return postage I broke even thanks to the one (oldest)
motherboard that didn't boomerang. So while they're already worth
something, I've decided there's too much scope for user-error with
selling old motherboards as working, and posting full PCs is too
expensive plus hard to package to survive the post sorters using
them for football. Laptops are better, though with them people want
working batteries.
Where I have done better is with IDE HDDs. After running their long
self-test to weed out duds, I've sold some high capacity ones for
$40-50 and even 40GB drives sell for $20. No returns. I set the
jumpers to "Cable Select" to make them as idiot-friendly as
possible. I thought the retro people would use CF or SD to IDE
adapters now instead of the smaller IDE HDDs like the 40GB ones,
but apparantly not.
> * Will there be future refuseniks wanting hardware without the taint of AI?
They'll probably just find ways of disabling it to their
satisfaction, as with the Intel Management Engine.
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