Vintage computer bounty: go east, young man?

[ed sharpe]

actually the stuff that was sent to Taiwan in the 70's and early 80's was 
the pile you really wanted to go though...... ah.... the things I saw the 
whores punch into the containers....

When gold got high  (and silver went way up thanks to the hunt brothers) so 
much hit the skids...

Scrap dealers seem to be historically uneducated and would  scrap anything 
that  even smelled remotely with the gold and silver content.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sellam Ismail" <sellam at vintagetech.com>
To: "Classic Computers Mailing List" <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2007 1:31 PM
Subject: Vintage computer bounty: go east, young man?


>
> I was reading this article:
>
> http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=2007-11-18_D8T08P0O0&show_article=1
>
> ...and was wondering how many vintage machines one could find if they
> traipsed around China for a summer and visited all the various e-waste
> processing gulags that (litterally) litter the country.
>
> There is literally billions of pounds of e-waste entering China every
> year.  If even a fraction of a fraction of that is old systems that are
> worth collecting and a fraction of that is still in some sort of complete
> and unwrecked condition, there is a vintage computer bounty waiting to be
> plundered by a brave privateer.
>
> The trick is getting it back to your place of origin ;)
>
> -- 
>
> Sellam Ismail                                        Vintage Computer 
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