25:00 Those are nixie tubes, you have probably seen some used in the oldschool petrol pumps at gas stations until the late 80's. People like to make steampunk clocks with them, be sure to keep the matching sockets from the pcb.
@@eWasteBen the board is not a problem - control board for nixie is simple. Nixie tube itself is a nightmare to manufacture, and there are lots of better solutions to show digits. But nothing looks that cool like nixie tube.
Canadian treasure hunter mentioned you in his video the other day he said you sent him a nice letter because his brother past away that was so nice and professional of you my respect level is through the roof for you I'm so privileged to have found your channel you have a gigantic heart my friend. love from Niagara falls NY
You're certainly an inspiration. Seeing you picking up old Wang computers reminded me of when I worked for Wang, for the last 2 or 3 years it was in business, here in the US. It might amuse you that you that some Wang old-timers had (very much sought after) T-shirts that said "When your Wang is down, we'll bring it bak up." I love your vintage PC scrap videos!
Check my videos to that's from my friend in the Philippines how they melt gold thanks in advance. Soon I'm going to start posting my videos on what I scraped out. Love what you do mate.
You cold sell those at 25:00 Those are called NIxie Tubes. If you look at them they have the numbers 0 though 9 in them it was for some of a number display and each one of those cards was the driver for each tube.
Hi Ben ots been a while got a ? For you I picked up some old electronics from a university they where old boards and the gold rectangular cpu and they where a cream color board with bright silver soder are they high grade also had pentium 486 chips on them
i was in the bank here in england, and saw a person repairing a amt, i was looking at the boards ( quite a few of them, and big one at that ). first thing that came into my mind was i bet ben would love to strip one of them on a vid. am i going mad or what???.
Hey man, i love your vids and gave it a like already i just haven't been able to catch up with the content yet but i just love vintage pcs even though i am Millennial born in 1998 i just wish i was born earlier for this kind of stuff its surely getting kind of depreciated (not in value obviously)
Hey Ben you should keep a little jar of those flat blade screws for your restoration projects in the future,you'll wish you did when it comes round to it. Kev from nz 👍
For the board mounted ceramic CPU's just set the board upsidedown on sime risers, use the heat gun on the fingers and then the CPU will just fall down.
You are the man! And you are the reason I got into this wonderful hobby thank you so much! Found lots of pre 90's electronic boards, having hard time figuring out what they are from, and if the little ceramic capacitors are the Bulgarian one with palladium everyone is talking about. If they are, I would be so hooked in collecting this since I got quite a a lot and big boards with them. There are too many similar small and big capacitors making it so hard for me to determine, how should I go about this? Thank you
The board with the tubes is a “Nixie Tube” display. That board has a very high value to electronic clock hobbies. The board behind the display tube would be the driver board and also worth decent money to the clock hobbiest.
@27:30 Those "Valves" look like Nixie-Tubes: " The Nixie Tube Story: The Neon Display Tech That Engineers Can’t Quit " ( spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history/dawn-of-electronics/the-nixie-tube-story-the-neon-display-tech-that-engineers-cant-quit )
I would actually love a video of you plugging a few complete machines in to see what they do/ what old software is on them. I'm sure that would be worth your while in terms of views.
Love to have one of those old cases for me to build a sleeper pc😄😄😄😄. Btw, those circuit lines on those old boards are actually 24k gold. Unlike today, the ate just 18k or 20k.
That board at 52:40 that has the transformer and gold legged transistors... that black “diode” is also a transistor. Just a newer poly type. Also the four black round caps with the white ring around the bottoms are also transistors with gold contacts in them. Should also have gold legs. Killer boards Ben!!
@@FollowMe2aMillion a 386 complete like that first one is worth about $150 any day of the week. The IBM, even in that poor state would easy pull $50-75. People love big blue.
@@FollowMe2aMillion The sound card Ben pulls from the 386 - could quite make it out,but ISA 16 bit cards are getting harder to find.. that alone probably $80
@@eWasteBen I enjoy your street scrapping videos mate, and you know your scrapping stuff... but watching this... well this is just vandalism. And so pointless - dunno why you're so eager to pull this stuff to pieces before you put the effort in to work what the actual market value is. Honestly heartbreaking.
Bruh, let him make money the way he wants. He said many times in the videos that he doesn't have time and space to store all the components or the wholes systems to slowly find somebody who will need one or two of those things once in a blue moon. You do you, he does what works better for him.
@@eWasteBen I've started pronouncing copper, "Coppah" and saying things like "That's got good scrap value there!" when we pass people piles on garbage day. It's making my wife a bit nutty.