This just makes me really SICK

From: Vintage Computer Festival <vcf_at_siconic.com>
Date: Mon Jan 19 16:10:12 2004

On Mon, 19 Jan 2004, William Donzelli wrote:

> > If so, does this indicate we are too cheap to save some of these machines?
>
> For the older machines, yes. Once a machine gets about 30 years old, the
> scrap value starts climbing fast.

Why is that? And does this hold for anything from any era that gets to be
30, or is it only from machines that are 30 years old now (and hence might
have a higher precious metals content than machines that are only 10-20
years old)?

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