25 Jan
2004
25 Jan
'04
11:56 p.m.
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?
Jay
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From: "William Donzelli" <aw288(a)osfn.org>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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Sent: Monday, January 19, 2004 3:42 PM
Subject: Re: This just makes me really SICK
> The point is that a lot old computer equipment is
routinely scrapped for
gold,
> as the only salvage value a lot of computers had
was in the gold they
carried.
Mostly, yes, but many contain enough aluminum and copper to make it
wothwhile. Now that steel is up again, the frames are not so much of a
liability.
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