RAM from the 486 era

[Techno+]

Hello,

while searching through my electronics cupboard at home i found some RAM modules(dunno which RAM but working hard to find) that date back to the 486 era, they were in an old Compaq computer which I gave away. I was just wondering are these considered some kind of computer antiques? What are they worth?

Thanx

[Skrying]

$0.

[Techno+]

I know that they are now as worthless as the sand from which they were made, what i mean are they worth something as 'computer antiques'?

[Skrying]

I know that they are now as worthless as the sand from which they were made, what i mean are they worth something as 'computer antiques'?

Which is what my value was. There's simply to much of it around in peoples cupboards, in boxes, etc. Very very few computer parts actually become worth something, and those tend to be special engineering samples or such parts of similar origin.

[nutball]

What are they worth?


www.ebay.<wherever you are from>

[Npl]

If you got >32MB RAM (on a single module) and its EDO Ram that fits in my A1200 Accelerator Ill pay you shipping.

[{Sniping}Waste]

Its one or the other 72 pin EDO or FPM.

[soylent]

A bog standard FPM or EDO will be worth hardly anything, I've got almost a gig of memory modules in a bag from that era, and they're mostly 2-16 MB modules. Personal value and monetary value are different things. Someone may value having a pentium much more than an engineering sample pentium overdrive, but they would never pay a large monetary value for the former since they are ubiquitous and a lot of people don't put any value on them.

Think stamps; if at some point a couple of stamps had an air plane printed upside down and in the wrong colour it could be worth millions, whereas the normal variety is worth less than the shipping. Kinda pathetic really.

[Capeta]

As has been said old RAM modules have very little value to a collector. Old microprocessors OTOH do have good value. I'm talking about the really old ones that use DIP style packaging. I saw some sell for $25 that were made in the 70s/80s. The white ceramic chips usually go for higher prices.

http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/2901/index.html