Electronics hoarder

[setq]

This was a Telequipment S61. Even crapper. One entire channel, 5MHz, nasty triggering (the light switch was better at triggering it than the trigger was) and assembled by blind drunken monkeys. The phosphor was a like an incandescent lamp. Edit: oh and the smell. I'll never forget that awful smell it made which I suspect was human urine.

[station240]

Even if all this stuff was fully functional, it wouldn't be worth anywhere near $2.5M.
The burnt stuff would be barely worth the fuel needed for the truck/forklift to move it.

Just look at what a pallet load of random electronic/computer stuff goes for on the auction sites, not much.

[bitseeker]

I sold a 5MHz one for £55 a couple of years back. Am I naughty?

Naughty? Maybe. Lucky? Absolutely!

[TerraHertz]

I'm strongly reminded of this newspaper story I read a few days ago:
   http://www.smh.com.au/victoria/mark-tromp-apologises-thanks-police-hopes-to-make-sense-of-familys-ordeal-20160906-gr9op4.html

Curiously, in the original listing from http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/112116844382, there is now one photo removed. Which was the only photo I thought showed anything of possible interest. Looked like some Tek rackmount stuff, but stacked face-down so there was no way to tell what they were. The last photo still there has a glimpse of them, upper right.

[MK14]

The following is speculation, but......

He is selling on ebay some of the items, separately.
Example.

Photocopier, he is asking $5,500.

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Konica-Minolta-bizhub-C550-Colour-Office-Photocopier-Printer-Scanner-/111880918238?hash=item1a0c9f54de:g:bWYAAOSwCypWoBfF

He has posted a picture of a brand new one for the ebay advert.



Please don't laugh, but the reality is one of the ones in the following picture, out in all weathers, including the rain...
Possibly top left hand corner.

[EEVblog]

Asking $2.5M - clearly delusional.
IMO he'd be lucky to get the 20K deposit.

My eyes went when I saw that. Crazy.

[TerraHertz]

OK, that does it. I confess, I am an incurable link hoarder. If URLs took up physical space, my house would be bursting at the seams and I'd probably be found some day, trapped under a collapsed pile of URLs and starved to death. I know, I know, I could 'buy' all the links I need any time, from google. But it's such a nice feeling to have a huge store of links, sorted into some kind of order. Well, piled up really, some of them out in the rain. Oh, and now and then a small fire in the worst piles of links. Still good, just a little blackened. As for link rats, it's OK, the cats keep them kind of under control.

Rather than seek help, I'm inspired by this thread to start another links collection, on the topic of hoarders. Just started today, give me a few years and it will be awesome. Worth millions.

20160605
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/buysellwanted/free-(aus)-world's-largest-electronics-parts-collection-as-seen-on-eevblog/

https://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/what-to-do-with-your-electronic-stuff-after-you're-dead!/
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/projects/stripping-circuit-boards-with-a-solder-bath/


20160907
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/buysellwanted/electronics-hoarder/

    http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/112116844382    112116844382
    Bulk Lot 180+ pallets mixed Server Pc Printers Phone Home Electronics & E Waste Email to friends
    Price:AU $20,000.00
    Original listing: http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Bulk-Lot-180-pallets-mixed-Server-Pc-Printers-Phone-Home-Electronics-E-Waste-/112116844382?nma=true&si=%252BpD33UM%252F20NujZIUkk%252B9CsEcyRU%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

https://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/so-you-think-you-have-too-much-junk/
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/daemons-of-a-young-electronics-horder-and-procrastinator/
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/excess-parts-'sell'-or-throw-away/


Anyone want to get rid of some unwanted hoarder links? I'll take them away for free. Just post here.

[bitseeker]

TerraHertz 

I like it. I don't think you'll have any problem with rats. Links tend to be fancied by mice (mouses?).