27 Jul
2010
27 Jul
'10
2:07 p.m.
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From: "Richard" <legalize at xmission.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 4:38 PM
Subject: Re: Lot of PDP-11/84 on ebay in Boston
In article <F95AA3C5EA9D4F67A43065F52F4C8D59 at dell8300>,
"Teo Zenios" <teoz at neo.rr.com> writes:
No, probably nowhere near that. Still if they pop the covers and see
anything with heavy gold plating on it maybe they would rather have it
smelted and see what they get then "giving it away" for much less then their
asking price, especially if they have to go out of their way to ship it.
I have no idea what a full load of boards weight in one of those (10 lbs?)
If they can get $5 a lb or more then that's $50 for 5 minutes work. Who
knows maybe they have a list of chips with a known gold value to look out
for. Most of those places go through a ton of scrap a day and don't want
their workers babying a couple machines to ship for a few hours when they
could be doing other things.
Some of those people are not that rational when it comes to scrap and
collectors value, and once they smell gold it gets worse.
I got about $1.50 a lb for circuit boards a few
weeks back (stuff that
was
under 5 years old). The older boards (80's or earlier) should be worth
much
more.
I still don't think we're getting anywhere near close to $450 for the
scrap value of a PDP-11/84 though. Unless there are cards in the rack
that are basically gold plated on one both sides with no circuitry.
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