Ever thrown something out that was worth a fortune later on?

[suicidaleggroll]

You have to be careful looking at the current value of "worthless" items from your past.  Even if you had kept it, as soon as the price got relatively high (10x purchase price?) you likely would have sold it.  The chances that you would have actually sat on it until it was worth what it is now are slim to none.  The only real way you'd still have it at this point is if you had forgotten about it entirely and then just stumbled across it later on.

[TerraHertz]

The chances that you would have actually sat on it until it was worth what it is now are slim to none.  The only real way you'd still have it at this point is if you had forgotten about it entirely and then just stumbled across it later on.

Ha ha, you haven't seen my place.  No seriously, I'd still have it. Also, I only learned what they have become worth, a couple of years ago.

Nice try at making me feel better, thanks. Didn't work.

[Kjelt]

University replaced their Apple 1s with IIs in 1985, i remember seeing a couple lying in the electronics dumpster. On the other hand if all 1s would have survived they would not be rare and expensive as they are now and besides the prestine pcb you need the box and signed letter from Jobs ans a buyer to make it worth those prices. People on this forum probably would have recapped it 

[lordvader88]

From my grandparents and parents

-Commodore 64
-Some 12" black and white vacuum tube TV, pretty small, maybe from the 70s?, it 1/2 worked, dam I wish I had that to play with now
-at least 1 old vacuum tube radio
-WOW I just remembered I think my grandfather had a tube tester
-great big 70s floor model TV, probably solid-state
-old stereo receiver that got fried by lightning, wish I had that to try fixing
-PS2 that died, wish I had that to try fixing
-cordless phones
-walkie talkies

pretty much all my electronic toys as a kid, many of which I took apart and broke and/or couldn't put back together

[moby]

4 tubes (approx 80 pcs) SAD1024 chips  <sigh>
M

[Bendba]

I used to have a C64, a few desktop PC's: an IBM 286, two IBM 386, one 486 but I don't remember which brand of computer, all working and ask original parts with two monitors, keyboards, mouse, trackball,...
A teacher at high school gave me the desktop pc's.
I also has multiple CRT cameras, one with the original betsmax recorder, cables and tapes, two nice travel CRT tv (about 5 in screens).
A massive tuner-amplifier-turntable set (Grundig I think), the tuner dial was about a foot long, I could tune in on Russian and Canadian am frequencies from Belgium.
Also had a 8 line paper chart recorder. And countless bins of parts.

When I left home to go to uni, 9 years ago, my mother threw the lot away, because, quoting her "You have no future in electronic and that worthless rubbish is outdated"

Now that I want to find all that stuff again, it's all out of budget for me.