My hoarder brother is getting in poor physical condition and the time has come to thin his hoard. I haven’t exactly scoured the interwebs looking for a way to pass this along to an interested party or may even get some payment for some of it. I do not trust what I see on the internet so I’m always skeptical.
Can anyone recommend a site to inquire about getting this stuff gone? eBay has lost a lot luster with me and shipping costs usually exceed any value this stuff has.
He has several old Apple desktop, all the same probably old computer class stuff.
A lot of the old Southwest Technical Products Corp terminals, cpus, disk drive, printer, software.
Several Teletype machines also with the tape reader/puncher.
Several large post WWII military radios.
All of it is old, discolored, dusty and been in his basement for decades.
Any suggestions beside a roll-off.

I too had several teletype machines.

As much as I hate to say it, finding a buyer for this stuff is nearly impossible at any price. In fact, I had to pay the trash company to get my 2 teletype machines gone.

Best advice I have to to pull any hard drives or other media and make sure they are destroyed properly and donate what you can and try to take a tax deduction.

One small hint..., some of the old computer CPU's had a tiny amount of gold. Years ago I heard rumors about people recovering the gold, but I don't know anyone who actually did this.

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Several large post WWII military radios.

If you are on Facebook there are several military sales sites. One is a type of auction site so you list the military item and let people bid on the stuff. US Military Collectibles "Make offer" Page. Right now the military radios of all eras are pretty hot so it's a good time to sell.

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Originally posted by radioman:
One small hint..., some of the old computer CPU's had a tiny amount of gold. Years ago I heard rumors about people recovering the gold, but I don't know anyone who actually did this.

The gold was actually on the circuit boards, and CPU/memory sockets not in the chips themselves, but I don't think Apple ever made one of these.

Nothing more tragic than old computer equipment. It was once someone's most heartfelt desire and pride and joy. Now it's hardly worth scrap value.

One thing WRT older hard disk drives, many of these had very strong magnets as part of the head positioning mechanism. I have found many uses around the house for these magnets. Disassembling the drive to get to the magnets has the effect of destroying the drive, a good idea as per radioman's advice above.

I'd search eBay / Advanced / Sold and see if any of it has ever sold. That'll give you an idea of whether it's worth the effort.

CPU's, Ram, older IC's have tiny amounts of gold. Again search eBay for Gold Recovery for an idea of value.

Any vacuum tube equipment in the mix?

You might be able to sell it as 1 lot on Craigslist to avoid paying for disposal. Let someone else strip the copper, sheet metal etc.

Do you happen to have a monitor adapter for a Performa 6116?

Some of the old Apple stuff may be worth money. But it would have to be something really, really early.

eBay is always a good starting point. But I would also just do Google searched just to see what comes up.

I used Vintage Computer Federation Forums to sell an old computer.

https://forum.vcfed.org/

Contact me. I’m interested in most of it

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Several Teletype machines also with the tape reader/puncher.

I think these would only be worth anything if they worked and you could find a buyer, but the mechanisms are too delicate and fussy to have been left stored in poor conditions.

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One thing WRT older hard disk drives, many of these had very strong magnets as part of the head positioning mechanism. I have found many uses around the house for these magnets. Disassembling the drive to get to the magnets has the effect of destroying the drive, a good idea as per radioman's advice above.

Yes but folks be aware those magnets are SCARY strong. As in, get your finger between them and metal, and...OUCH. They are great if you know to be careful.

RE: destroying the drive properly. After the software deleting/wiping/formatting/partition deletion is done, I take my old/dead HDDs apart (spent years with Seagate and Quantum, and have the right tools.) and pin its discs to a metal bookcase with its voice coil magnets. Good luck recovering data from those!

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Do you happen to have a monitor adapter for a Performa 6116?

I’m not a computer nerd so I looked up the Perorma 6116 on Wikipedia. They list a Performa 6116CD and show a Power Macintosh equivalent of 6100/60. There is at least one 6100/60av desktop. I would need to visit the hoard again and count how many of each component is there. I believe some of it is CPU, keyboard and monitors in similar quantities. If your own research concludes something is useful I can probably accommodate.

Antique Radio Forum for the radios also maybe the computer stuff.

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I inherited a few WWII items from my father in law and donated them to our local POW museum. They were happy to get them.