I guess this is just one of those things where I have to smile and nod. By some objective standard there's nothing that wrong with the 6100, in the sense there's nothing "that wrong" with a Hyundai Excel; both worked well enough to get you from one place to another at about the legal speed limit when they were new, and I suppose I might pay $10 for a completely smashed Hyundai if I had some crazy idea about powering a parade float or something with it. Since I can't at all visualize what you're trying to do with smashed 6100 guts I'll assume it's going to power the computer equivalent and congratulate you on the find.

(Maybe you should post some diagrams or something to help describe your hacks? I get lost so easily.)