This just makes me really SICK

From: Tom Jennings <tomj_at_wps.com>
Date: Mon Jan 26 13:59:22 2004

On Mon, 2004-01-26 at 05:56, Jay West wrote:
> You're right William. We as collectors need to pony up and be willing to pay
> the price over scrap. However, I have delt with a couple scrappers who tell
> me "Oh, I can get $XXX for that in scrap" and I wonder how valid those
> prices are. How can we know? I believe one scrapper told me that for a 6
> foot rack with a 21MX cpu and a small QIC tape drive and small HPIB drive
> (each of the later units is 19 inches wide, about 4 inches tall, 15 inches
> deep, and weighs about 15 pounds so we're not talking lots of metal)... that
> he could get $140 for the scrap metal from it. Is this about right or
> off-base?

Methinks his value high, but scrap guys as horse traders make other
surplus and junkyard people look like wimps, and most importantly, he
knows that you don't know.

THAT SAID! If I wanted a 21MX, and that plus a rack of goodies could be
had for $200, hell I'd pay that and let the scrapper snicker about the
fool who bought it while I happily took it home... :-)

And you might give him a business card or something to call whenever
he's got "stuff like this". You'll probably get a lot of false alarms
(racks of telco punchdowns etc) but once in a while...

tomj

>
> Jay
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "William Donzelli" <aw288_at_osfn.org>
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> Subject: Re: This just makes me really SICK
>
>
> > > The point is that a lot old computer equipment is routinely scrapped for
> gold,
> > > as the only salvage value a lot of computers had was in the gold they
> carried.
> >
> > Mostly, yes, but many contain enough aluminum and copper to make it
> > wothwhile. Now that steel is up again, the frames are not so much of a
> > liability.
>
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