28 Jun
2006
28 Jun
'06
6:24 a.m.
Wednesday, June 28, 2006, 1:19:13 AM, you wrote:
There are not that many people who would pay to ship
mainframes or minis
(which would have the most gold scrap value) across the country in one piece
(and most would be on this list). Besides most people tend to die before
they part with the collection, leaving people who are probably not much into
the hobby to dispose of the equipment one way or the other.
That's why I'm thinking (for quite a while now) about writing down my
will including names of people that might be interested or at least
can help finding someone who is. But as usually, this will be done
"tomorrow".
I think the whole thread is just to show people what
you are up against
money wise when you try to get vintage chips for a working machine that have
a decent amount of gold in them. Coin collectors have the same problem when
the gold,silver, nickel, and copper is worth more then the collector value
of the coin so they all get melted down.
I never thought much about recyclers hunting on public auction
platfoms (such as ebay) as I figured shipping and handling will be
more than the scrap is worth.
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Best regards,
Gerhard mailto:mail at g-lenerz.de
Old SGI Stuff http://sgistuff.g-lenerz.de/