old pc parts

[harry]

IMHO not too useful unless they are like.... free.

You probably will not be able to make them work as new (or want to...)
Most of the chips will be fairly worthless digital chips, etc.

There may be a fair number of ferrite beads on the old boards, usually on I/O
boards (video, modem, etc...). These are not worth much, but they will be hard to
get if you go out to buy them alone.

Newer boards are usually SMT and have even fewer good parts on them !!!

MHO

H^) harry

Nicholas Pelkey wrote:

> I recently stumbled onto lots of old pc parts at a local junk/antique shop.  A couple of the boards (sound board/motherboard etc) said they where from a 1982 Compaq.  A couple where loaded with ics.  I'm a bit of a newbie... I am only familiar with the functions of a few ics.. Would anyone out there know if there would be anything usefull for synth applications on these sort of boards?  I can get them cheap enough and look them up... or list them online.  I was just hoping to avoid another one of my famous impulse buys (which have formed there own land of half working junk).  Any help would be great.
> Thanks
> Nick P
>
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