4 Nov
2010
4 Nov
'10
2:26 p.m.
I don't own an HP 2116 because of the price of silver back in the day.
It was claimed to have $1000 worth of silver, and the seller got that
though other comparable minis at the time were selling for no more than
about $500 (entire rack usually).
Same for 4381's. I paid $500 for one I had at one time due to gold
recovery value (1985 time frame)
Jim
On 11/4/2010 1:56 PM, John Foust wrote:
At 03:48 PM 11/4/2010, Teo Zenios wrote:
How much of the earlier stuff was saved from
melting because gold was only worth $350 an ounce in the booming 90's compared to
$1390 in the current depression?
Ha! Just the other day I decided I should
disassemble the PPros from
two old quad PPro Proliant 14U servers. There seemed to be no value to
them as parts or intact. Somewhere on the net claimed they have $30-40
in gold in each PPro. When I checked eBay, it seemed to be true.
Someone was even selling a new-old-stock CASE of PPros, and the high price
must've reflected the gold value.
- John