What do you do with old gear?

paul78

Ever since I started reading TE, I have been impressed and also motivated to update my own lab. Until I came across this forum late last year, I didn't realize that other people built and maintained their own labs.

As I started to replace a lot of my gear - I also started to consolidate and organize all the stuff from many decades.

Logically, I know that I probably don't need the old 9600baud high-speed modems or the crates of old boards.

Unfortunately, I suffer from "you never know if you might need it" syndrome.

What do you do with all your old gear?

NetworkVeteran

paul78 wrote: »

Unfortunately, I suffer from "you never know if you might need it" syndrome.

If you have five widgets worth 50% of list today, and you end up needing one of them a year or two for now, you just re-buy it at that point for 25% of list. Obviously, you should make an exception for scarce parts!

CodeBlox

I have a feeling that if I did have old cisco gear, it'd probably be somewhere boxed up around the house because I only THINK I will need it at some point. I say this because I rebuilt a really old system that I've got around the house with the same, just new parts and I kept the old stuff! That would include the old AGP card, a PCI dial-up card, 200 watt power supply and various other things from what was replaced haha.

bermovick

paul78 wrote: »

What do you do with all your old gear?

Garage, unfortunately. I think I only last year got rid of some old 486 motherboards (one had a cyrix chip even).

jibbajabba

Mate had a 42U cabinet in his garage from the previous owner - he turned that into a snake rack lol ...