This was absolutely by far the best electronic equipment I have ever scraped. If this was intact when I got ahold of it I would of hung it on the wall someplace.
Unfortunately the guy who brought it to me had attempted to cut the wiring harness out of it ( I think he was after the aluminium frame ), and gave up after making a mess of it.
He gave it to me if I withheld the aluminum frame housing for him. Most happy to do that , and I would do it again any day.
It was two drawers out of a mainframe computer I think. One of the drawers had two rows with about
20 card / slots with most of the cards already removed. I told him I wanted the cards too, witch he rounded up and brought buy on another trip.
Ever seen a grown man drool, this stuff was mesmerizing, reeking with gold, I have never seen anything like it.
All card slot pins and bulkhead pass through barrel connectors were very heavily plated. I remember one of those barrels ( about the size of a drinking straw 2" long ) would fizz for most of 90 seconds in my stripping cell, and that didn't touch the plating on the inside.
Even the wiring harness was a very bright silver or maybe even palladium clad fine strand about 22 and some 14, 12, and 10 gage copper wire. I do still have the wire all striped down filling a coffee can. The wiring harness was like the roots of a tree, starting out about 2.5" in diameter and branching down smaller and smaller to single pairs. The entire harness was laced up like a pair of sneakers with a tough nylon string or cord, and ty strapped in place all by hand I would think. All soldering of the connections was likely done by hand too.
I wish that I had taken some before and after pictures.
I do still have some of the remnants and some of the lesser quality riser cards laying around with the edge fingers still attached somewhere I think.
I broke this all down about 2 years ago and I haven't cleaned out my cell yet but it's all mixed up now with other stuff. Afraid I'm not good with keeping track of the numbers.
Anyways here is a picture of the service stickers from his aluminum cabinets. I'll see if I can find some of the pieces I haven't stripped yet.
You guys are my inspiration, I learned it all right here on the great GRF.
Ray
Unfortunately the guy who brought it to me had attempted to cut the wiring harness out of it ( I think he was after the aluminium frame ), and gave up after making a mess of it.
He gave it to me if I withheld the aluminum frame housing for him. Most happy to do that , and I would do it again any day.
It was two drawers out of a mainframe computer I think. One of the drawers had two rows with about
20 card / slots with most of the cards already removed. I told him I wanted the cards too, witch he rounded up and brought buy on another trip.
Ever seen a grown man drool, this stuff was mesmerizing, reeking with gold, I have never seen anything like it.
All card slot pins and bulkhead pass through barrel connectors were very heavily plated. I remember one of those barrels ( about the size of a drinking straw 2" long ) would fizz for most of 90 seconds in my stripping cell, and that didn't touch the plating on the inside.
Even the wiring harness was a very bright silver or maybe even palladium clad fine strand about 22 and some 14, 12, and 10 gage copper wire. I do still have the wire all striped down filling a coffee can. The wiring harness was like the roots of a tree, starting out about 2.5" in diameter and branching down smaller and smaller to single pairs. The entire harness was laced up like a pair of sneakers with a tough nylon string or cord, and ty strapped in place all by hand I would think. All soldering of the connections was likely done by hand too.
I wish that I had taken some before and after pictures.
I do still have some of the remnants and some of the lesser quality riser cards laying around with the edge fingers still attached somewhere I think.
I broke this all down about 2 years ago and I haven't cleaned out my cell yet but it's all mixed up now with other stuff. Afraid I'm not good with keeping track of the numbers.
Anyways here is a picture of the service stickers from his aluminum cabinets. I'll see if I can find some of the pieces I haven't stripped yet.
You guys are my inspiration, I learned it all right here on the great GRF.
Ray
