Old hardware - Keep?, Why? or Throw away?

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I'm having a bit of a spring clean and have come across some old hardware and was just wondering if there is any reason to keep it and why?.

I have come across an original Orchid 3DFX graphics card, this was one of the first available in this country!, ahhhh Quake!..... :)

A Vibra 16 soundcard, one which could drive speakers directly!.

Oh dear, 3 ISA multi I/O cards!, jumpers aplenty lol....

A Psion 3c complete with programming manuals, leather case.

A SW60 midi soundcard, on ISA.

A CGA graphics adapter card on ISA.

A VRM module (2.8v P55c or 2.9v AMD K6)

A REX-3 pcmcia organiser (very early PDA which fitted into a PCMCIA slot).

Other bits and pieces.

Is any of this worth keeping, or selling?, or just bin it?.
 
Anything that works flawlessly should be kept for troubleshooting purposes, i.e those PCI Graphics cards and maybe the sound.
 
Yes i always have an emergenct backup supply. Ive got an old pci gfx card in case my primary gfx card fails so at least i can still use the pc. Also got an old CDROM drive in case my drives fail, a pci modem in case my router breaks, and a 256Mb stick of ram in case that dies as well. Only thing ive not got 2 of is cpus.
 
I agree its always worth keeping spares around, never know when they will be needed. As for personal experiance I can say thta gathering spares over the years has given me enough parts to build 4 new pcs, not uber fast but good for file servers / parents / selling to newbees / etc
 
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