28 Oct
2001
28 Oct
'01
1:43 p.m.
Hello John and others,
I think I could pay scrap (.gt. free ) value.
The scrap from commercial systems is actually valuable.
Scrappers can get up to $2.00 per pound for it. I had 8
racks of cards ( non-DEC very proprietary stuff ) that
didn't seem to want to sell individually, so I sold to a
scrapper. That batch totaled 880 pounds, and I got $660.00
( $.75 per pound ) and that scrapper wouldn't have been
buying it unless he was making good money on it too. It
just about paid for the 16' beavertail flatbed trailer I
bought from the same fellow.
So when Heinz says ...
It sucks that these people would rather scrap out a
machine
than let a collector have it for free.
It translates to ...
"it sucks that people won't give away free money"
Bennett