Fw: Control Data Cyber 960 rescue interest?

14 Nov 2001

...
  > Anybody
have a CLUE as to its value as scrap? 
 Apperently it's not insignificant. Supposedly
there is considerable
gold on the circuit boards. May be water cooler myth, can anyone
 confirm or deny? 
One of the bad guys (professional scrapper) said he paid $10K for
Each IBM 360 he got.  Sounds like more than $1/llb folks. 
***   joke  ****

How do you tell when a professional scrapper is lying? Their lips are moving.

$4/lb is about the top end for just circuit boards, and then only when
filled with expensive chips in sockets. $0.50 to $1.50 is more common for
well populated boards.

Ceramic chips with gold pins go by themselves for about $25/lb.

Aluminum is something like $0.35/lb.

The rest is mostly breakage which is more like $0.04/lb.

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Fw: Control Data Cyber 960 rescue interest?