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I have this old 33kb/s ISA Modem lying around, and it is quite frankly huge....at least 30cm long.
After googling it, it comes up with 'hard to find computer parts' and prices around the barrier of £50 -£100. Am I lying on a small fortune or don't you think there will be much call for it.
Its a DTC FDVSP34J - OPEN BOX internal isa 33.6k baud modem
What would you all say on Ebaying it?
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| Personally I think it is totally worthless. Modern 56k is capable of adjusting it's speed for old type fax machines, and I can't think of any reason why anyone would want such a slow modem when a new one is available for around £4. Ebay - definately. Even if you only cover the listing price. You, probably, will never find a use for it so hope that someone else can. If you do ebay it, please put the listing on here and then we can watch it as well.
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I have a couple such modems here. They are completely worthless.
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They might be worthless, but also useful as you can still use 33.3KBPS and 56.6KBPS modems on the Commodore 64 and 128 if you have the right interface (Turbo232 for instance) and software (NovaTerm or The Wave).
EDIT: Sorry, I thought it was external and not internal... didn't see the ISA bit :-)
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Shaun.
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Sure, they're also useful for PCs before the PCI era (or ven during the PCI era), but there's that many in circulation that they're worth anything in a financial sense.
Unless they've all been thrown away in the last eighteen months and are now like golddust...
EDIT: Check this out: http://tinyurl.com/q76ye. Guy put it up for sale at 1p and still nobody bought it.
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| its like old ISA network cards not worth much but means you can get any old computer on line with a bit of playing about. i have a few isa cards in my spares boxes including graphics cards.
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| It's a little like most things, if someone want's it then they will pay. I put an ISA Network Card on ebay and was quite surpirised the interst and bids. I started it a 1p I think I ended up with £2.56 + post. I did Saturday, sell a parallel printer on ebay, sold as scrap, no ink, 99p starting fee. 1 bid I am about to post it today. A lot of people may use up to date equipment, but equally how many people stick with what they have? You may have seen something go for £50, but really on ebay what's it worth to you. Make this your starting price, then who knows if you get one bid you have got what you expected, if you get know bids, you pay ebay fees ? That's ebay all over but you never know, give it a go.
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