14 May
2013
14 May
'13
12:53 p.m.
On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 5:57 PM, Richard <legalize at xmission.com> wrote:
In article <51914117.4030903 at bitsavers.org>,
Al Kossow <aek at bitsavers.org> writes:
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It's already at $317... Any thoughts as to the the final value of this?
And could this beast be correctly called a 'supercomputer'?
On 5/13/13 11:35 AM, Sam O'nella wrote:
When I am dealing with a scrapper, I try to find out how much they
expect to get from a machine in scrap value (after subtracting out
disposal costs; not everything in there is a money maker for them) and
offer enough more than that to make it worth their while.
I understand their business and if I want to buy stuff from them, it
has to be more profitable for them to sell it to me than to scrap.
It's just the way the market works.
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I'd rather think the latter concept would be
the insult.
and explains why scrappers think collectors are nutjobs.