26 Jul
2010
26 Jul
'10
3:07 p.m.
[mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of
Patrick Finnegan
Sent: Sunday, July 25, 2010 10:43 PM
Subject: Re: Lot of PDP-11/84 on ebay in Boston
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.
In North West New Jersey scrap high density circuit boards are $0.70 per
pound. Steel is about $200 per ton.
27 Jul
27 Jul
12:57 p.m.
On Monday, July 26, 2010, Kelly D. Leavitt wrote:
After processing fees, I got $3.40/lb for my last load of junk (which
was based on the actual content). Whoever is paying $0.70 is making a
boatload of money.
Pat
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[mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Patrick Finnegan
Sent: Sunday, July 25, 2010 10:43 PM
Subject: Re: Lot of PDP-11/84 on ebay in Boston
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.
In North West New Jersey scrap high density circuit boards are $0.70
per pound. Steel is about $200 per ton. 
1:09 p.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Patrick Finnegan" <pat at computer-refuge.org>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 3:57 PM
Subject: Re: Lot of PDP-11/84 on ebay in Boston
On Monday, July 26, 2010, Kelly D. Leavitt wrote:
After processing fees, I got $3.40/lb for my last load of junk (which
was based on the actual content). Whoever is paying $0.70 is making a
boatload of money.
Pat
I got about $1.50 a lb for circuit boards a few weeks back (stuff that was
under 5 years old). The older boards (80's or earlier) should be worth much
more.
[mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Patrick Finnegan
Sent: Sunday, July 25, 2010 10:43 PM
Subject: Re: Lot of PDP-11/84 on ebay in Boston
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.
In North West New Jersey scrap high density circuit boards are $0.70
per pound. Steel is about $200 per ton. 
1:38 p.m.
In article <F95AA3C5EA9D4F67A43065F52F4C8D59 at dell8300>,
"Teo Zenios" <teoz at neo.rr.com> writes:
I got about $1.50 a lb for circuit boards a few weeks
back (stuff that was
under 5 years old). The older boards (80's or earlier) should be worth much
more.
I still don't think we're getting anywhere near close to $450 for the
scrap value of a PDP-11/84 though. Unless there are cards in the rack
that are basically gold plated on one both sides with no circuitry.
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2:07 p.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard" <legalize at xmission.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 4:38 PM
Subject: Re: Lot of PDP-11/84 on ebay in Boston
In article <F95AA3C5EA9D4F67A43065F52F4C8D59 at dell8300>,
"Teo Zenios" <teoz at neo.rr.com> writes:
No, probably nowhere near that. Still if they pop the covers and see
anything with heavy gold plating on it maybe they would rather have it
smelted and see what they get then "giving it away" for much less then their
asking price, especially if they have to go out of their way to ship it.
I have no idea what a full load of boards weight in one of those (10 lbs?)
If they can get $5 a lb or more then that's $50 for 5 minutes work. Who
knows maybe they have a list of chips with a known gold value to look out
for. Most of those places go through a ton of scrap a day and don't want
their workers babying a couple machines to ship for a few hours when they
could be doing other things.
Some of those people are not that rational when it comes to scrap and
collectors value, and once they smell gold it gets worse.
I got about $1.50 a lb for circuit boards a few
weeks back (stuff that
was
under 5 years old). The older boards (80's or earlier) should be worth
much
more.
I still don't think we're getting anywhere near close to $450 for the
scrap value of a PDP-11/84 though. Unless there are cards in the rack
that are basically gold plated on one both sides with no circuitry.
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2:18 p.m.
I offered to buy all the systems and have a shipper come pick them up
for shipment. Instantly auto-rejected.
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2:23 p.m.
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From: "Sridhar Ayengar" <ploopster at gmail.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 5:19 PM
Subject: Re: Lot of PDP-11/84 on ebay in Boston
Richard wrote:
Too many people showing interest maybe to let them go cheap?
I offered to buy all the systems and have a
shipper come pick them up
for shipment. Instantly auto-rejected.
This guy is a schmuck.
Peace... Sridhar
3:06 p.m.
In article <6A3BBD11249D4AACA8FAE562A96DC807 at dell8300>,
"Teo Zenios" <teoz at neo.rr.com> writes:
Too many people showing interest maybe to let them go
cheap?
His auction listed at the same price previously expired with 0 bids.
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28 Jul
28 Jul
5:02 a.m.
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 00:06, Richard <legalize at xmission.com> wrote:
His auction listed at the same price previously expired with 0 bids.
http://cgi.ebay.com/Digital-DEC-PDP-11-84-System-last-chance-/140431577078?…
http://cgi.ebay.com/Digital-DEC-PDP-11-84-System-last-chance-/140431576543?…
http://cgi.ebay.com/Digital-DEC-PDP-11-84-System-last-chance-/140431576745?…
http://cgi.ebay.com/Digital-DEC-PDP-11-84-System-last-chance-/140431576876?…
He now has 4 auctions with the same PDP set.
BTW, if those were located in paris, France, I would have bought them (less
than 100 euros/pdp is a fair price here).
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6:01 a.m.
In article <AANLkTinc_tzy6ViEjR2seoA1KYJM+U0oFzWz42EZ97fy at mail.gmail.com>,
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?St=E9phane_Tsacas?= <stephane.tsacas at gmail.com> writes:
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 00:06, Richard <legalize at
xmission.com> wrote:
d=ViewItem&pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item20b25fcff6#ht_2726wt_1009
d=ViewItem&pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item20b25fcddf#ht_2726wt_1009
d=ViewItem&pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item20b25fcea9#ht_2706wt_1009
d=ViewItem&pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item20b25fcf2c#ht_2571wt_1009
His auction listed at the same price previously expired with 0 bids.
http://cgi.ebay.com/Digital-DEC-PDP-11-84-System-last-chance-/140431577078?…
He now has 4 auctions with the same PDP set.
No, he has the same picture of a group of 5 for each of the 5 auctions
selling of an individual machine.
BTW, if those were located in paris, France, I would
have bought them (less
than 100 euros/pdp is a fair price here).
Its 5x the price you are thinking.
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3 Aug
3 Aug
7:17 p.m.
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 15:01, Richard <legalize at xmission.com> wrote:
...
No, he has the same picture of a group of 5 for each of the 5 auctions
selling of an individual machine.
You are right.
The auctions ended tonight without any bid.
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BTW, if those were located in paris, France, I
would have bought them
(less
than 100 euros/pdp is a fair price here).
Its 5x the price you are thinking.
10 Aug
10 Aug
10:18 a.m.
I notice that when I view the page, ebay says it ended with "buy it
now" but when I view the "completed listings" results for the seller,
they're all shown with the prices in red, which indicates that noone
bought the item.
Now the seller has a bunch of individual PDP-11 cards listed for $75
each, so it looks like he took the cards out of the system and is now
parting them out.
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