CPU scrap

[Teo Zenios]

While browsing on ebay lately I noticed CPU scrap going for quite a bit of money, for example:

http://cgi.ebay.com/1-lb-Lot-high-yield-CPU-gold-scrap-recovery-486-/220690179217

Seems like 486 era chips (ceramic) are getting melted down for gold, and those poor PPros are going to be rare as dodo birds in a decade. Kind of makes me wonder if anything is going to be around from the 90's computer era in a dozen years.

How much of the earlier stuff was saved from melting because gold was only worth $350 an ounce in the booming 90's compared to $1390 in the current depression?

TZ