Buying old hardware

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Buying old hardware 2017-01-01 07:24:38 Post No. 58267996
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Buying old hardware Anonymous 2017-01-01 07:24:38 Post No. 58267996 [Report]

Pic related , from experience how many will actually work ? They dont look so bad but its whats inside that matters.

perhaps is there any better way to get working condition hardware of this era ?

Anonymous 2017-01-01 07:31:31 Post No.58268029
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Anonymous 2017-01-01 07:31:31 Post No.58268029 [Report]

Depends on the seller. I count on 50% of them working, but I probably average 90% success rate.

Anonymous 2017-01-01 07:33:36 Post No.58268044
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Anonymous 2017-01-01 07:33:36 Post No.58268044 [Report]

>>58267996
The floppy drives are probably okay. The optical drives are most likely toast.

Anonymous 2017-01-01 07:41:34 Post No.58268089
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Anonymous 2017-01-01 07:41:34 Post No.58268089 [Report]

>>58268029
I would assime 50% too.. I wonder how many he actually tested as not working yet put in to maximize profits by selling them as a non tested lot.

Its so cheap I dont really care anyway , as long as I get some of the tape drives working.

>>58268044
thats fine , im mostly after the tape and floppy drives. Sadly looks like its mostly optical drives , I see 3 tape and

Anonymous 2017-01-01 07:45:01 Post No.58268111
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>>58268089
-and like maybe 2 floppy drives.

Also anyone has any idea what the fuck is this thing ? You dont get to see the front in any picture.

Anonymous 2017-01-01 07:49:19 Post No.58268125
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>>58268089
It's entirely possible that they're all okay. I just know from my experience optical drives are more sensitive to wear and tear. My oldest CD-ROM drive still working is a 6x Matsushita. All of my other IDE optical drives can't read for shit. I have a box of floppy drives and only 2 out of 15ish have stopped working.

Anonymous 2017-01-01 07:54:20 Post No.58268144
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>>58268111
It's probably an external SCSI CD-ROM drive. Possibly needs a CD-ROM caddy. My dad had one like this.

Anonymous 2017-01-01 08:01:03 Post No.58268171
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>>58267996

What are you doing with them?

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