Old 286 desktop breakdown

I got a nice load of old towers just a few weeks ago. 27 in total, 2-3 286, 2-3 386, 5 486, a few old pentiums, a few 8088's, and a few newer ones. Paid $70 for the 27 towers, I think I did really well! Strictly scrap only, as all the stuff was nasty looking and the cases were rusty.

The first one I broke down was an old AST 286 desktop, this is what I got out of it:

Power supply 6.4 lbs @ 0.30 = $1.92
Hard drive 3.8 lbs @ 0.90 = $3.42
Disk drives 4.2 lbs @ 0.13 = $0.55
Mother boards and finger cards 4 lbs @ 4.00 = $16.00
Wire 0.2 lbs @ 0.50 = $0.10
Steel case 20 lbs @ 0.09 = $1.80

Total scrap value = $23.79

This is the first time I had such an old load, the oldest towers I had before were a few 486's and pentiums here and there.
I didn't record the weights exactly on the other towers, but some scrapped out at nearly $30 a piece!

check those chips you could be at 200+ for some of those computers now

Nice aurum, I'm way jealous! Next time think about taking pics. It's rare to get such an old load.

Very nice load there, and like scrapcrazy said, quite rare for such a vintage load!

Nice score!

On old XT and 286's if the HD was one of those old large MFM or RLL types (has 2 thin cables going to it unlike IDE which has one or SCSI which would have a large one) you could probably get $15-20 on ebay for it as is (more then scrap).