Fw: Control Data Cyber 960 rescue interest?

From: Ian Koller <vze2mnvr_at_verizon.net>
Date: Thu Nov 15 15:12:53 2001

> worn out appliances, junk cars, and such

Why don't you get a grip. If your experience is in worn out
appliances and junk cars, your experience is sorely limited.




"James B. DiGriz" wrote:
>
> Mike Ford wrote:
>
> >>>>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.
> >
>
> I should have clarified. It's not that significant when you factor in
> the transport, labor, fuel, processing supplies, hazardous disposal
> costs, and other overhead. I have had occasion to haul off worn out
> appliances, junk cars, and such to the scrapper, and I even did a
> spreadsheet or two for one. The margin is not that high without a little
> help sometimes, if you know what I mean.
>
> Something like that might be going on in the case of the Cyber, and the
> state may be lucky not to lose more than $10K selling it as scrap, even
> with a slash-and-burn removal.
>
> To be fair, that may represent the least cost method of disposal, at
> least in terms that beancounters can understand. Unless a rescue plan
> that will cost the state less, or maybe net it something, is established.
>
> jbdigriz
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