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    Sounds like a nice haul!

    I assume you had permission to take them??

    "roaming the streets, looking for treats"



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    Torker, how long are you going to give me a hard time about that ?!!! I did apologize you know. lol Happy new year.

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    Just testing your sense of humour Dee!

    Looks like it is in tact.

    Cheers!


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    Congratulations and Good Luck Dee!!

    Well Now I see the post is a few weeks old... Hopefully you did great with them!!!
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    Thanks Auntie...I posted a pic on another thread entitled..."there's gold in these here dinasaurs"

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    just found my secound double gold top today. 2 in 3 days

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    Old 386 and 486 desktops and towers

    I just came across someone that has a garage full of old ibm 486/386 and gateway 2000 pcs some are flat desktops and others full towers.

    He is firm on $10 a piece.

    What do you think the scrap value of these would be?

    Would it be worth it to buy 100 of these for $1000?

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    this should be a new thread: that said what hes doing is selling you the chips and the mother board with out having to do the work himself. you will be left with profit from iron, floppy drives hard drives ram etc, I just finished a bunch of them. if they are all complete, its probably an ok deal, if they have been scavanged and ram or other parts removed its marginal. ram and hard drive boards are premium price but it takes a lot of them to make a LB.

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    copper , lead

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    thanks for reply i will make this a new thread.

    Quote Originally Posted by olddude View Post
    this should be a new thread: that said what hes doing is selling you the chips and the mother board with out having to do the work himself. you will be left with profit from iron, floppy drives hard drives ram etc, I just finished a bunch of them. if they are all complete, its probably an ok deal, if they have been scavanged and ram or other parts removed its marginal. ram and hard drive boards are premium price but it takes a lot of them to make a LB.
    Yes they are not scavenged. I am estimating close to doubling my investment, but this is not including labour to break them all down et...

    Do you think that $18 to $20 is about right for scrap value of entire 486 pc?

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    olddude, congratulations on the gold tops....are they A80501

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    NYP you better figgure closer to $!5. the drop in gold a month ago has hit the e waste about $1 to $2.50 per Lb on every thing.

    a while back I bought a 1 gal baggie of ram for $10 it looked and felt like 10 lbs it weighed 2.5 lbs. the thought and sight of gold does strange things to peoples judgment.
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    Do you think that $18 to $20 is about right for scrap value of entire 486 pc?
    Maybe back in the summer, but not now. You could gamble on it (the price) going back up, if you feel lucky. Sometimes this is all a crapshoot.
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