26 Jan
2004
26 Jan
'04
5:59 a.m.
On Mon, 2004-01-26 at 05:56, Jay West wrote:
You're right William. We as collectors need to
pony up and be willing to pay
the price over scrap. However, I have delt with a couple scrappers who tell
me "Oh, I can get $XXX for that in scrap" and I wonder how valid those
prices are. How can we know? I believe one scrapper told me that for a 6
foot rack with a 21MX cpu and a small QIC tape drive and small HPIB drive
(each of the later units is 19 inches wide, about 4 inches tall, 15 inches
deep, and weighs about 15 pounds so we're not talking lots of metal)... that
he could get $140 for the scrap metal from it. Is this about right or
off-base?
Methinks his value high, but scrap guys as horse traders make other
surplus and junkyard people look like wimps, and most importantly, he
knows that you don't know.
THAT SAID! If I wanted a 21MX, and that plus a rack of goodies could be
had for $200, hell I'd pay that and let the scrapper snicker about the
fool who bought it while I happily took it home... :-)
And you might give him a business card or something to call whenever
he's got "stuff like this". You'll probably get a lot of false alarms
(racks of telco punchdowns etc) but once in a while...
tomj
Jay
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From: "William Donzelli" <aw288(a)osfn.org>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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Sent: Monday, January 19, 2004 3:42 PM
Subject: Re: This just makes me really SICK
> The point is that a lot old computer
equipment is routinely scrapped for
gold,
> as the only salvage value a lot of computers
had was in the gold they
carried.
Mostly, yes, but many contain enough aluminum and copper to make it
wothwhile. Now that steel is up again, the frames are not so much of a
liability.
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