26 Jan
2004
26 Jan
'04
4:28 a.m.
On Mon, 26 Jan 2004, 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?
I used to have an easy rule of thumb for determining scrap value. It was
something like $.14/pound for typical old computers, but <$.20/pound for
HP gear (more gold).
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