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I may have some useful hardware sitting around here at the house. Some of it may be 20 years old. How can I tell whether any of it will be useful to this projec

I may have some useful hardware sitting around here at the house. Some of it may be 20 years old. How can I tell whether any of it will be useful to this project? I have cards, dongles, etc. I am in the US but I would like to assist this project if I have any useful hardware to contribute. OT: I also have obsolete equipment such as keyboards and maybe docks for dead tech like Handspring Visor, Palm devices, various obsolete data storage devices, SCSI components, old graphics cards, network cards, sound cards, RAM from PCs bought at least 15 years ago, an original Mac128k converted to 512k with printer and external floppy drive, and lots of cables for lots of things. What do y'all do with stuff like this?

capableweb 5y ago
> What do y'all do with stuff like this? Slowly accumulating stuff in various boxes that sits in wardrobes around the house. One time I threw a cable that I thought I didn't need and then five years later I needed just that cable so now I don't throw anything. Broken stuff gets dissembled into pieces, basically harvesting the "important" stuff, then sorted into tinier boxes. Then the rest goes to the recycling center.
rjsw 5y ago
> What do y'all do with stuff like this? eBay.
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washbear 5y ago
> I may have some useful hardware sitting around here at the house. Some of it may be 20 years old. How can I tell whether any of it will be useful to this project? NetBSD developer hat on It will likely be very useful, martin would particularly like CardBus and PCMCIA hardware, though he's kind of overwhelmed by requests right now. If you can find some way to get the chipset identifier (maybe check dmesg, usbdevs/pcidevs if your operating system provides such a command), that's the useful information that he needs.
forgotmypw17 5y ago
Put it into a metal chest and keep it around for after the solar flare hits and/or when retro-computing has grown a bit.

capableweb 5y ago

> What do y'all do with stuff like this? Slowly accumulating stuff in various boxes that sits in wardrobes around the house. One time I threw a cable that I thought I didn't need and then five years later I needed just that cable so now I don't throw anything. Broken stuff gets dissembled into pieces, basically harvesting the "important" stuff, then sorted into tinier boxes. Then the rest goes to the recycling center.

rjsw 5y ago

> What do y'all do with stuff like this? eBay.

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washbear 5y ago

> I may have some useful hardware sitting around here at the house. Some of it may be 20 years old. How can I tell whether any of it will be useful to this project? NetBSD developer hat on It will likely be very useful, martin would particularly like CardBus and PCMCIA hardware, though he's kind of overwhelmed by requests right now. If you can find some way to get the chipset identifier (maybe check dmesg, usbdevs/pcidevs if your operating system provides such a command), that's the useful information that he needs.

forgotmypw17 5y ago

Put it into a metal chest and keep it around for after the solar flare hits and/or when retro-computing has grown a bit.