Don't sell your old gear keep it.

Good advice. I never would have guessed that so much of my old gear would actually be worth more today than when I sold it. I thought I was lucky to get $500 for that obsolete Jupiter back in 1989, even though I'd paid almost that much just for the Anvil case. I even threw in two Roland drum machines with the deal, since it seemed nobody wanted analog drum machines anymore and in my mind they were worthless.

The cheap rack items made by ART, Alesis, especially Behringer, etc will never increase in value and if you like them in your signal chain going into your computer, they might be handy.  Otherwise, they've become only something to look at nowadays.

I would have thought the same thing about all the cheap Electro-Harmonix and Boss stompboxes I had back in the day. Look at what a 1-transistor fuzzface goes for now. Alesis drum machines have been sampled and are still offered for sale. I thought my old TR-808 was junk back then, now everybody wants to emulate it. For all we know, 20 years from now ART and Behringer stuff could be going for thousands on eBay and called "classics".

Actually, in some circles they probably will.  There's stuff on Ebay that I thought was garbage in the 60's, but getting a decent dollar because of its' age.  A Silvertone and cheap Hagstrom or Tiesco guitar back then are good examples.  I actually sold a fuzzface about 5 years ago for $350 that was from the 60's.  Never really liked it either, but Eric Johnson and Hendrix are the only people I've heard make them usable.  It was missing the knobs and the bottom plate as well.
Here's even a funnier example... go look and neck backing plates for guitars.  An old rusty one off a 50's Strat might sell for $400 on Ebay...seriously.  That's just stupid, if you ask me.  Even if you're looking for "original parts", it won't be off the "original" guitar.  Just even the toggle switches are getting crazy money, not to mention a complete wiring harness.
As we speak, I'm digging out all my 60's equipment catalogs.  Maybe get a new ADK computer with the sale of a couple of them! 

And how, exactly, would one distinguish an authentic 50's Strat neck plate from one milled in a high school metal shop and left out in the rain for awhile? 

Seriously, if there are people out there gullible enough to pay $350 for a Fuzzface, I'm going back into the attic. I wonder what a broken Vox Wah pedal might go for...I have a whole box full of broken vintage cables, partial reels of tape and a genuine Sears Silvertone guitar that you can tune as long as you don't touch the whammy bar.

I've been predicting that SONAR 8.5 will become the first "vintage" DAW.

yep.... I bought a "hot tubes" stomp box that was maybe $40 new..... used it a few years, stored it in my shed for another 12 or so and tried to use it one day... just for grins. It was so noisy and grungy sounding I decided to sell it on Ebay.

I opened the bidding at $15 figuring that was about all it was worth..if that.  A few days into the auction I checked back and it was at $45...I was elated.  I checked in the next day and it was at $55 with only a few hours left in the auction. I sold in a bidding war at the end of the auction for over $80. 

And I did make full disclosure on how noisy that thing was.... the guy who won it gave a glowing review. 

You can never tell about old gear and what it's worth to some folks.

Looks like we lost Cerberus already. And bapu hasn't even stopped by to totally derail the thread!

I had an Ibanez Analog Delay from 1982 and paid $99 for it, first run or thereabouts. I always hated it's tone and kept it in a closet for 30 years. Sold it recently for $265 because somehow the model had become an epic legend. I have to say it sounded just as cold and toneless as I remembered on the day it was sold.

Nope!  I'm here, just slow on the uptake, and watching you guys reminisce and commiserate!

Of all of my old gear, I've only got my keys, my road amps, mixer, and one or two old sound modules left, of dubious reliability...  I was really looking forward to gearing up from scratch again, designing myself a nice workstation desk with plenty of rack space, seeing as I don't gig anymore.  Fill the rack up with plenty of things to turn and slide, and plenty of lights.  Rack space that now looks to be unnecessary, sadly.

I should be setup with Sonar in the next day or so, so it'll be fun playing with that, anyway.  Then I'll see if soft synths have gotten any better since the 1990s!