Teo Zenios wrote:
That aside
i'm surprised that noone is stepping in with good ideas to
find good homes for unwanted gear on this list.
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).
On top of that, most computer recyclers aren't interested in separating
something potentially useful from something that's obvious scrap - at least
none of the ones I've found in the UK. Even if they can potentially make more
money out of it that way, it seems not worth their time to go outside regular
channels (I get the impression that US places are a lot better for this)
It's why I happened to mention what it was that I had; I was hoping there'd be
a flurry of interest from list members! Otherwise it'll have to be off to ebay
with it (and the VCM, but I expect that 90% of people who look at that also
read this list) and fingers crossed that there's enough interest from
collectors there :-(
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.
Presumably there's a healthy collector market there though; I mean it's a lot
easier to ship a coin to someone that it is a computer - so providing that
people interested in that hobby are well connected there's probably less of a
problem there.
cheers
Jules