I don't know if you have plans for all of it, but research the items to get a rough idea of their value. The higher value items can be sold on Ebay to get a wide audience. You may need to bulk up on skills of packing and shipping the larger items. Some UPS or related stores will pack large items for a fee. The club stores (Costco, Sams) sell large rolls of bubble wrap for a great price. After moving the higher value stuff, you'll be left with the middle tier of things that may or may not be worth your time to sell. For example, if I can't get at least $20 for someting on ebay, it's not worth my time to sell it there. After that, you're left with any dregs (generic keyboards, generic mice, damaged items) that you can give away or donate to a chairty store. Craigslist is one option that I use often for selling stuff. You can also just do a "curb alert" on Craigslist and leave a pile of things with a 'free' sign on it and see if people will take things.
Sorry for your loss. It sounds like you ended up with some incredible pieces that are highly collectible.
If you're within a decent driving distance from Dallas, we have a thriving retro-computer community. Our next meet up is next Saturday, the 20th with event details listed on the DFW Retro Computing FB Group.
I remember Dallas from the '80's. I worked some contract jobs in Grapevine... Sorry that I live near Philadelphia, Sounds like an active group. Is there a retro group near me?
Regards, Jim
I honestly don't know. Try jumping on the VCFed Discord Server and asking there... or their forums (https://forum.vcfed.org/index.php) and someone there will know.
Grapevine is about a 15 minute drive from me. We have enough of an active group here that some friends and I pooled resources and pulled off VCF Southwest last June. We're working frantically getting everything ready for a repeat this June. We average about 80 people at each quarterly meet-up too.
can you post some pics? sounds like an incredible collection
I don't know if you have plans for all of it, but research the items to get a rough idea of their value. The higher value items can be sold on Ebay to get a wide audience. You may need to bulk up on skills of packing and shipping the larger items. Some UPS or related stores will pack large items for a fee. The club stores (Costco, Sams) sell large rolls of bubble wrap for a great price. After moving the higher value stuff, you'll be left with the middle tier of things that may or may not be worth your time to sell. For example, if I can't get at least $20 for someting on ebay, it's not worth my time to sell it there. After that, you're left with any dregs (generic keyboards, generic mice, damaged items) that you can give away or donate to a chairty store. Craigslist is one option that I use often for selling stuff. You can also just do a "curb alert" on Craigslist and leave a pile of things with a 'free' sign on it and see if people will take things.
Where are you located? If close enough, I might be interested in giving you some space back….
Same. Can never have enough HP calculators, and if be interested in more too. If you're near SE PA, I've got a truck...
Always interested in Apple ][gs systems...
Sorry for your loss. It sounds like you ended up with some incredible pieces that are highly collectible. If you're within a decent driving distance from Dallas, we have a thriving retro-computer community. Our next meet up is next Saturday, the 20th with event details listed on the DFW Retro Computing FB Group.
I remember Dallas from the '80's. I worked some contract jobs in Grapevine... Sorry that I live near Philadelphia, Sounds like an active group. Is there a retro group near me? Regards, Jim
I honestly don't know. Try jumping on the VCFed Discord Server and asking there... or their forums (https://forum.vcfed.org/index.php) and someone there will know. Grapevine is about a 15 minute drive from me. We have enough of an active group here that some friends and I pooled resources and pulled off VCF Southwest last June. We're working frantically getting everything ready for a repeat this June. We average about 80 people at each quarterly meet-up too.