Re:Ask HN: What's your process for reselling your used hardw...
by GaryNumanVevo on Saturday July 11, 2020 @10:07PM
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My father worked in telecom for 30 years, doing network validation engineering. We recently put together a curio with all the phones he’s tested over the years. All the IPhones, countless androids. Old Nokia / bell phones. Just be sure to remove the batteries!
Re:Ask HN: What's your process for reselling your used hardw...
by Brajeshwar on Sunday July 12, 2020 @12:36AM
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Ah! Thanks. I really need to remove the battery from the 2016 MacBook Air.
Re:Ask HN: What's your process for reselling your used hardw...
by GaryNumanVevo on Sunday July 12, 2020 @02:51AM
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No problem, I spent this past Christmas break shucking old Iphones for his display case. Do it sooner rather than later!
Inspired by a friend of mine who digs up and collects World War items, including buried soldiers, shells, guns, etc. He is funded by the Japanese, British, and a tad from the Indian government and have proudly donated the museum to the public.
I'm not very nostalgic, and so prior to this, I either gave it to someone or sell them off for cheap - stay minimal, and simpler.
Now, I collect/archive interesting items which our family have used. I still sell and/or give off many working devices. I'm preserving the iPhone 3G (first iPhone released in India), iPhone 4, iPhone 6 (but not the 7, 8 which are same as 6). I've analog wired phones, the white MacBook, first MacBook Air, the old 16-inch MacBook Pro (I think, from around 2006) Megabyte capacity HDD, Floppy Disk, etc.
This also extends to some toys, apparels for the kids but they are more of personal interest.
I'm not expecting too much out of this, and will start small but I'm hoping that I should be able to kickstart something in the next few years.