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-Athl...1QQcmdZViewIte

On 25 Dec 2005 16:18:23 -0800, "mcewena" >
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-Athl...1QQcmdZViewIte

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warehouse full of superseded mainframe computer equipment used by government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" > wrote in message
...
> On 25 Dec 2005 16:18:23 -0800, "mcewena" >
> wrote:
>
> According to an uncle, there's gold inside them. don't know how many
> you need to be rich.

"Bruce Kennewell" > wrote in message
...
> 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 warehouse full of superseded mainframe computer equipment used by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

"****prat" > wrote in message
...
> "Bruce Kennewell" > wrote in message
> ...
>> 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 warehouse full of superseded mainframe computer equipment used by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.