ebay batch of CPUS WTF??

Is this a scam or is there a market for dead AMD processors???? Item number: 6832786991 http://tinyurl.com/awa63 http://cgi.ebay.ca/TEN-Dead-AMD-Athlon-XP-2800-Processor-CPU-Defective_W0QQitemZ6832786991QQcategoryZ44935QQssPageNameZWD3VQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewIte

On 25 Dec 2005 16:18:23 -0800, "mcewena" <[email hidden]> wrote: >Is this a scam or is there a market for dead AMD processors???? > >Item number: 6832786991 >http://tinyurl.com/awa63 > >http://cgi.ebay.ca/TEN-Dead-AMD-Athlon-XP-2800-Processor-CPU-Defective_W0QQitemZ6832786991QQcategoryZ44935QQssPageNameZWD3VQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewIte According to an uncle, there's gold inside them. don't know how many you need to be rich.

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 Back in the late 1980's/early 1990's a clever lad in the USA bid for a whole warehouse full of superseded mainframe computer equipment used by government departments.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 "PowerPost2000" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > On 25 Dec 2005 16:18:23 -0800, "mcewena" <[email hidden]> > wrote: > > According to an uncle, there's gold inside them. don't know how many > you need to be rich.

"Bruce Kennewell" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:43af905e$[email hidden]...

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> 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 warehouse full of superseded mainframe computer equipment used by 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

"Pissprat" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> "Bruce Kennewell" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:43af905e$[email hidden]... >> 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...

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