25 Jul
2010
25 Jul
'10
2:57 p.m.
Yeah, and in the description he says:
Any offers below $450 for single systems will be rejected.
Nice.
On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 9:38 AM, Zane H. Healy <healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote:
If I read that right, that's $550 per system.
Zane
At 11:23 AM -0400 7/25/10, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
Someone should try to snap these up:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=140431577078
I doubt scrap value is over (or even near) $50/each, so maybe you can
deal with the guy if you're willing to pick them up.
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8:07 p.m.
I would not pay that money for that computer.
They're ugly and don't have blinkenlights....
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4:47 p.m.
On Sunday, July 25, 2010, Teo Zenios wrote:
So what are they worth individually?
Not as scrap? I'd consider $100/each a really good deal.
I'd like to see what he says if someone were to offer him $500 for the
lot and to pick them up.
His main complaint about not wanting to sell them under $450 seems to
stem from his perceived difficulty in shipping them, which I can
understand completely (as I have to ship a lot of stuff I sell).
Or tell him you'll offer him double what his scrapper will pay for the
systems, and offer to pick them up yourself.
Pat
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7:43 p.m.
He has it setup to auto-decline any offer that is below $450. I sent
an offer anyway, but this guy seems to think he's sitting on gold
bars.
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8:08 p.m.
an offer anyway, but this guy seems to think he's
sitting on gold
bars.
Yes, he *is* actually sitting on gold bars. Very tiny ones, attached to PCBs
:-)
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9:50 p.m.
With gold at $1200 an ounce he is probably sitting on some money in scrap. I
am kind of curious how much the gold value is on stuff that old. My local
scapper gets a little sensitive if he thinks something has gold in it,
otherwise I can get anything ancient for next to nothing (well depending who
is running the shop when I show up).
So one guy says $100 each is a good deal, another said CPU and RAM is
something like $200-300. Going by that maybe he isn't completely nuts in
pricing considering he would have some time and money in packaging them up.
When I see something listed at $200 and I can get it for $20 that's a bit
crazy, this isn't 10x the going rate.
Still I don't want one, so they are worthless to me.
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Subject: Re: Lot of PDP-11/84 on ebay in Boston
He has it setup to auto-decline any offer that is
below $450. I sent
an offer anyway, but this guy seems to think he's sitting on gold
bars.
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10:38 p.m.
In article <3E3A4DA6697F4CA5B599C526F422E55D at dell8300>,
"Teo Zenios" <teoz at neo.rr.com> writes:
With gold at $1200 an ounce he is probably sitting on
some money in scrap.
I have a hard time believing there's a third of an ounce of gold in
each one.
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10:43 p.m.
On Sunday, July 25, 2010, Teo Zenios wrote:
With gold at $1200 an ounce he is probably sitting on
some money in
scrap. I am kind of curious how much the gold value is on stuff that
old. My local scapper gets a little sensitive if he thinks something
has gold in it, otherwise I can get anything ancient for next to
nothing (well depending who is running the shop when I show up).
I would expect no more than $5/lb (probably less) for that era of board
or about $5 or less per board in scrap value. The rest of the chassis,
maybe $5 in value without spending a lot in labor to separate the metals
out.
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26 Jul
26 Jul
1:03 a.m.
Patrick Finnegan wrote:
I'd like to see what he says if someone were to
offer him $500 for the
lot and to pick them up.
Me too, someone local might be able to get a nice deal.
His main complaint about not wanting to sell them
under $450 seems to
stem from his perceived difficulty in shipping them, which I can
understand completely (as I have to ship a lot of stuff I sell).
Or tell him you'll offer him double what his scrapper will pay for the
systems, and offer to pick them up yourself.
Pat
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25 Jul
25 Jul
9:31 p.m.
At 3:16 PM -0400 7/25/10, Teo Zenios wrote:
So what are they worth individually?
It depends, in part on what is in them. I'm not sure what an /84
power-supply goes for. The CPU and RAM is down to about $200-300 I
believe (last I looked they were surprisingly cheap). I didn't
bother to take a look at what the boards were in the unit listed, as
my /73, /23+, and /44 will do all I need (assuming the /44 still
works, I haven't had time to start the work needed to test it out,
maybe next winter).
Zane
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