9 Nov
2010
9 Nov
'10
9:53 a.m.
On Friday 05 November 2010, Eric Smith wrote:
Patrick Finnegan wrote:
It's highly unlikely he was selling them for other than scrap. I'd be
surprised if you can sell a PPro with cracked ceramic as anything other
than scrap. Also, in May of 2008 I think it would have been hard to
find a buyer looking to pay more than $6/ea for random/untested Pentium
Pro CPUs, unless they were getting turned into scrap.
Pat
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A few years ago, a scrapper would give me just
over $6 per PPro in
qty 1, so either he was an idiot (less likely), or there's
something to this.
I can think of a few other possible reasons that have nothing to do
with gold content. The most obvious is simply that the resale value
of a Pentium Pro was well over $6.