The storage question

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Marvin Johnston wrote:
>>         If no takers for freebies within 2 weeks, dumpster it. Better 
>> a quick death and you don't have to pay for storage while it 
>> rusts/deteriorates/loses magnetization for the hard drive bits. If 
>> you keep it, it'll die eventually anyway and you'll pay for it 
>> (fiscally and emotionally) over the decades it takes to die.
> 
>>                                                 - Mark, 210-379-4635
> 
> I will rarely dumpster anything computer related ... at least intact :). The
> motherboards and cards usually have enough gold to be of some interest to gold
> scrappers (Pax may have more to say about this!) Personally, I have a box that I
> toss old cards into and sell them every six months to a year. Depending on the
> gold content, I usually get somewhere around $0.50 - $1.00 per pound. No idea if
> this is good/bad/indifferent but it sure beats giving it away to the electronic
> recyclers (we can't through electronics into the dumpster here in Kalifornia.)

Hell, I've even got decent money for boards with mercury switches on them.

Peace...  Sridhar