5 Sep
2011
5 Sep
'11
6:35 p.m.
In the late
70's I lost an HP 2116 to silver and gold value. They wanted
and got $3000 for it for metal scrap alone. The main values supposedly was
in silver.
That sounds far too high. The buyer probably had a reseller in mind.
Sure, HP stuff of the era has lots of gold (the boards generally are
completely plated in it), but not a *pound* of the stuff. HP2116s are
just not that big.
I also was
told that University of Missouri, Rolla's 360/50 went for around
25,000 in the early 80's for scrap.
For a whole installation - a really big
one - perhaps in that
ballpark. Back in those days a scrapper I knew told me a good sized
mainframe installation would get him about $10K, little ones a couple
thousand.
--
Will