26 Jan
2004
26 Jan
'04
1:51 a.m.
On Jan 26, 2004, at 7:56 AM, Jay West wrote:
You're right William. We as collectors need to
pony up and be willing
to pay
the price over scrap. However, I have delt with a couple scrappers who
tell
me "Oh, I can get $XXX for that in scrap" and I wonder how valid those
prices are. How can we know? I believe one scrapper told me that for a
6
foot rack with a 21MX cpu and a small QIC tape drive and small HPIB
drive
(each of the later units is 19 inches wide, about 4 inches tall, 15
inches
deep, and weighs about 15 pounds so we're not talking lots of
metal)... that
he could get $140 for the scrap metal from it. Is this about right or
off-base?
The scrapper I keep robbing... err, buying computers from... sets
scrap value for gear <20 years old at $0.20/lb. Older than that, if
there's a lot of PCB, the gold content is higher and he's much more
proud of it. Thirty or forty cents a pound.
Some of the stuff I've bought from him:
Altos 580 - $5
Sun2-170 - $43
3 MV3100-80 - $15
1 VS4000/60 w/ 72MB - $4
2 PDP-11/93 with SCSI - $180
Of course, nowadays if it says d|i|g|i|t|a|l he thinks it's _solid_
gold. :(
And Bear, if you're reading, I can't find your number. Shoot me a
note off-list.
Doc