actually the stuff that was sent to Taiwan in the 70's and early 80's was
the pile you really wanted to go though...... ah.... the things I saw the
whores punch into the containers....
When gold got high (and silver went way up thanks to the hunt brothers) so
much hit the skids...
Scrap dealers seem to be historically uneducated and would scrap anything
that even smelled remotely with the gold and silver content.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sellam Ismail" <sellam at vintagetech.com>
To: "Classic Computers Mailing List" <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2007 1:31 PM
Subject: Vintage computer bounty: go east, young man?
I was reading this article:
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=2007-11-18_D8T08P0O0&show_artic…
...and was wondering how many vintage machines one could find if they
traipsed around China for a summer and visited all the various e-waste
processing gulags that (litterally) litter the country.
There is literally billions of pounds of e-waste entering China every
year. If even a fraction of a fraction of that is old systems that are
worth collecting and a fraction of that is still in some sort of complete
and unwrecked condition, there is a vintage computer bounty waiting to be
plundered by a brave privateer.
The trick is getting it back to your place of origin ;)
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Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer
Festival
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