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ebay batch of CPUS WTF??

mcewen

ebay batch of CPUS WTF??

by mcewen » Tue, 27 Dec 2005 09:18:23

Is this a scam or is there a market for dead AMD processors????

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PowerPost200

ebay batch of CPUS WTF??

by PowerPost200 » Tue, 27 Dec 2005 09:51:32



According to an uncle, there's gold inside them.  don't know how many
you need to be rich.

Bruce Kennewel

ebay batch of CPUS WTF??

by Bruce Kennewel » Tue, 27 Dec 2005 15:32:10

Oh, there's gold in them thar CPU's.....and other computer components as
well.

Back in the late 1980's/early 1990's a clever lad in the USA bid for a whole
warehouse full of superseded mainframe computer equipment used by government
departments. Everyone thought he was nuts, even tho' he got the job-lot at a
price that was as close to zero as you could get.

He stripped the boards out of every case and chassis, ground them up, ran
the resulting gravel through a processing procedure and ended up making a
small fortune from the sale of precious metals..........which included gold.

BK




> According to an uncle, there's gold inside them.  don't know how many
> you need to be rich.

Pisspra

ebay batch of CPUS WTF??

by Pisspra » Tue, 27 Dec 2005 19:23:00


Yeah, but these went for over $20 each...

--
Tony

John Smit

ebay batch of CPUS WTF??

by John Smit » Tue, 27 Dec 2005 20:09:09




>> Oh, there's gold in them thar CPU's.....and other computer components as
>> well.

>> Back in the late 1980's/early 1990's a clever lad in the USA bid for a
>> whole
>> warehouse full of superseded mainframe computer equipment used by
>> government
>> departments. Everyone thought he was nuts, even tho' he got the job-lot
>> at a
>> price that was as close to zero as you could get.

>> He stripped the boards out of every case and chassis, ground them up, ran
>> the resulting gravel through a processing procedure and ended up making a
>> small fortune from the sale of precious metals..........which included
>> gold.

>> BK

> Yeah, but these went for over $20 each...

> --
> Tony

and gold is around 500.00 an ounce...
Jeff Rei

ebay batch of CPUS WTF??

by Jeff Rei » Tue, 27 Dec 2005 22:47:10

Probably before the days that the hazardous chemicals used
to extract the metals became too expensive to legally
dispose of.

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