Fw: Control Data Cyber 960 rescue interest?

From: Mike Ford <mikeford_at_socal.rr.com>
Date: Thu Nov 15 03:36:43 2001

>>> Anybody have a CLUE as to its value as scrap?
>
>>Apperently it's not insignificant. Supposedly there is considerable
>>gold on the circuit boards. May be water cooler myth, can anyone
>> confirm or deny?
>
>One of the bad guys (professional scrapper) said he paid $10K for
>Each IBM 360 he got. Sounds like more than $1/llb folks.

*** joke ****

How do you tell when a professional scrapper is lying? Their lips are moving.

$4/lb is about the top end for just circuit boards, and then only when
filled with expensive chips in sockets. $0.50 to $1.50 is more common for
well populated boards.

Ceramic chips with gold pins go by themselves for about $25/lb.

Aluminum is something like $0.35/lb.

The rest is mostly breakage which is more like $0.04/lb.
Received on Thu Nov 15 2001 - 03:36:43 GMT