My company’s first IT guy - he was hired when the company was created in the mid 80s - retired after a lifetime of very competent IT work.

The man was a bit of a packrat, and there was a mountain of old computer cruft in his office and in his storage spaces.

We cleared all those spaces last week and I saved a few things, like a pair of Apple IIs with the original monitors and joysticks, because I had one when I was a teenager - so ya know, for memory’s safe.

But I let the rest go to the landfill because, while I know a lot of that crap has some value today, there was so much of it and I simply didn’t have time to catalog everything and put it up for sale on behalf of the company. Not to mention, I’m generally not a fan of old stuff: I had to suffer it when it was the only thing around and I’m glad it’s gone personally.

The last pile however, I finally decided to save: it’s 4 big cardboard boxes full of new unopened boxes of 3 1/2 and 5 1/4 floppies and written ones (maybe 500 of each blank and 500 with something on em), 10 NOS 3 1/2 floppy drives and one nondescript beige PC with a 5 1/4 drive, another 3 1/2 drive and a DVD burner in the bays.

My plan is to image what’s worth imaging (probably not much) that’s still readable (probably not much either) then format and recondition the written disks and sell them all when I have free time, and just keep a couple of 3 1/2 drives and the 5 1/4 for myself (because I’m a bit of a packrat too 🙂) and sell the other 8 3 1/2 drives.

Or I could simply sit on them until they become truly rare 🙂

Anybody has any idea what that junk might be worth today?