I'm gonna try and make this as far away as possible to a "How much is this worth?" thread. it's not about that. It's more about how I'd go around to getting it sold. I've got permission from Dot50Cal anyhow I've been going through a lot of my stuff that I'm going to sell in the next few days. Some stuff was very surprising [Visual Basic 6.0 goes for a LOT more than I thought it would], but one thing I just don't know about is this: They're some gigantic manuals for an AIX Version 3.2 system. From what I can tell it's an old OS IBM made years and years ago. This collection of manuals include a Quick Reference book, a System User's Guide, Diskless Workstation Management Guide and Reference, POWERstation and POWERserver: Common Diagnostics & Service Guide, and a bunch of other book that I don't know what they are - The manuals are still sealed in plastic. What I ask is - is there a market for this sort of thing? I know people collect all the old Commodore 64 manuals and magazines [which I have a few of], but Ebay isn't the best option, I'd imagine, for this item. People here I wouldn't think would be that interested either. So, is there a community in which I could try and sell such an item to? Someone similar to this website, but much more interested in old computer [rather than console] software / hardware? This thing weighs something around 5kg too, which is rediculous. I pity the guy who had to write the damn thing :lol: On a similar note, I've got some old 3-inch diskettes hanging around: Probably not worth a lot, but it would be near impossible to search for on Ebay [3 inch includes 3.5 inch :|], any suggestions on how to get rid of something like this?
You can just search in Google and see if you find a community that is dedicated into old PC hardware/software. I'm sure that stuff is worth something and is quite possibly very rare. I never heard of AIX. Is it a GUI OS that is pre-OS/2?
We still use AIX legacy systems in our government organisation, so someone might still find use for them. Not sure this is the right place for this thread though, did Dot50Cal say to post it here?
Not worth much I reckon. Put them on without a reserve and hope for the best. All this kind of thing is available online in PDF these days: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/pseries/v5r3/topic/com.ibm.aix.fastconnect/doc/fastcon/fastcon.pdf http://www-306.ibm.com/software/network/dce/library/publications/pdg/pdg.pdf probably more if you googled
If you have the AIX media then it's worth something to a collector. Put it on eBay and I gather that you'd get about $10 +shipping for the manuals. Try craigslist or gigoit.org and see if you someone wants them.
