Better have a strong stomach for this...

At 11:34 AM 4/22/2005, Vintage Computer Festival wrote: These places certainly have people paid to triage. Some systems are reclaimed as-is. Maybe they boot-and-nuke and sell the bare system to a PC reseller, maybe they take systems apart and sell the components, or maybe they have their own shop for selling the PCs. If the owners have been in the recycling / junk business, then they'll certainly have the money-scavenging attitudes we see at any resale shop or auction house. Don't think you'll be able to skim all the IMSAIs at $5 each. The operators will want their fair share if the material is valuable - and by simply showing up and asking to buy item X, you've established there's some value. You need to overcome their inertia to even bother to sit and talk to you about buying some particular pile you like. Time is money. Storage is money. Even bothering costs money. - John