[personal] Re: Stanford's PDP-6 ( was Re: Hardware Hobbyists vs. EmulatorJockeys)

[Richard]

In article <e1d20d630906190901g58ab1d60q8d784a101e4b1ac7 at mail.gmail.com>,
    William Donzelli <wdonzelli at gmail.com>  writes:

> > Plead, beg, make the best case for recovery they can to the owner, offer to
 do the work of removal at no cost to the owner, Etc.
> 
> And then the scrapper comes in with MONEY...and drives away with the machine.

Given that scrappers bid on a per-lb. basis based on what they think
they can recover from the machine, it shouldn't be too hard to outbid
a scrapper.  However, sometimes you have to deal with "property
surplus" organizations that seem to prefer scrappers since they deal
with them regularly over the one-time bidder that comes in.
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