value of scrap

From: Info from LSI <dec.parts_at_verizon.net>
Date: Sun Oct 28 21:43:38 2001

Hello John and others,

> I think I could pay scrap (.gt. free ) value.

  The scrap from commercial systems is actually valuable.
Scrappers can get up to $2.00 per pound for it. I had 8
racks of cards ( non-DEC very proprietary stuff ) that
didn't seem to want to sell individually, so I sold to a
scrapper. That batch totaled 880 pounds, and I got $660.00
( $.75 per pound ) and that scrapper wouldn't have been
buying it unless he was making good money on it too. It
just about paid for the 16' beavertail flatbed trailer I
bought from the same fellow.

So when Heinz says ...

> It sucks that these people would rather scrap out a machine
> than let a collector have it for free.

It translates to ...

  "it sucks that people won't give away free money"

                       Bennett
Received on Sun Oct 28 2001 - 21:43:38 GMT