on 1/12/03 1:05 AM, Jeff Walther at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Most of those boards aren't worth what it would cost to haul them out > and test them, much less transport them, and build a computer around > them. Not if one counts the time spent as worth anything. Heck, > that's just about true of 7200 boards, and those are PCI machines. That's the point exactly. If you had to pay a laborer minimum wage and he had to pick these boards up and carry them 200 yards, you'd lose money. The guy that has them has them (weird phrase) in a 40' trailer and is losing money on the rent for the trailer. It's tough to get in to the unlit trailer and scrounge around. There's a hefty representation of Apple II's and there are two skids of LC's that are complete machines. There are some Laser Writer boards too. There's a box of about 100 IIci cache cards. If the stuff is rendered into components (labor intensive) it will bring the average price per pound up to about 80�. The costs of acquisition, labor storage and transportation pretty well wring the profit out of the deal. Any money he can get from "retail" buyers like me is a bonus, but is actually just another round of selling his time cheap. Then I get a chance to sell my time cheap. If I paid myself minimum wage and actual expenses, I couldn't sell the stuff I sell at the prices I sell it at. A word to the wise among aficionados and collectors though, they ain't making any more of this stuff, and when it's gone, it's gone. If there's a machine you "love," get a spare everything. There's no economics in warehousing junk unless you mark it way, way up. Ask the boys at Shreve Systems if you don't believe me. -- All the best, R.A. Cantrell
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