mainframes and other stuff

js at cimmeri.com js at cimmeri.com
Fri Nov 21 10:09:57 CST 2014



On 11/21/2014 10:36 AM, William Donzelli 
wrote:
>> There doesn't seem to be a meeting of the minds here at all.  And it's a
>> shame... if the scrapper teamed up with a curator, a lot of money could be
>> made, and a lot of valuable stuff could be saved from actually being
>> scrapped.  Shame.
> The problem is that collectors in general have no clue to what vintage
> machines are worth as just plain ore. Some of the numbers being thrown
> around here are perhaps just over the value if each box was just scrap
> steel, but we know that these boxes contain much more than steel.

Fyi, steel is currently around $6 / 100 
lbs.  I just turned in a 4200 lbs Chevy 
for $263.

  js.


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