PCIe, PCI and AGP

[ewx]

Not so long ago I discovered that (1) I had no ISA-capable motherboards any more (2) I had a large pile of ISA cards of various kinds (3) nobody else wanted ISA cards, even for free.

Currently I have computers with, variously, PCI, AGP and PCIe slots and a number of PCI and AGP cards, some in service and others not. What I'm wondering, in the light of experience, is when PCI and AGP cards will reach the same kind of useful-to-nobody stage that ISA has already entered; it might be better to get my spares into useful service somewhere or other than to keep them in a box for a decade and then bin them.

Any guesses?

(The same applies to PATA, actually.)

Comments

[stephdairy.livejournal.com]

AGP is almost dead already, and PCI slots are becoming weird legacy things that you might get one of in a new computer if you're lucky...

(S)

[crazyscot.livejournal.com]

Not even Cambridge Computer Recycling? They took some ISA cards off me not so long ago, apparently they send them to a facility which melts them down - sounds like the one the production guys at nC sometimes use.

[aardvark179.livejournal.com]

PATA is going to be around for ages, just because of the vast number of optical drives that use it.

[tigerfort.livejournal.com]

I don't yet own a computer with either PCIe or SATA[1]. I'm hoping not to have to get a new machine for a while yet, come to that.

[1] thinking about it, this may be a lie; it's possible that the MB of my current main machine supports SATA and I've merely never used it.