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How much gold is in there?

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Name: Judy
Date: April 21, 2002 at 20:20:44 Pacific
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Hi I have a friend that just collects nothing but old 8088, 286 and up machines. I asked him one day what he planned on doing with them and he said he was going to recycle the gold?? how much is in them?? enough to buy a cup of coffee...lol I thought that was kind of strange to go around and pick up these old machines to pull a few cards out. He also said the older the machine the more gold in it. He said he pulled a part an old cray mainframe and recovered like $400.00 worth of gold. Maybe I should start doing this for a hobby what do you think?

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Judy



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Response Number 1
Name: T
Date: April 21, 2002 at 22:40:54 Pacific
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Didn't you post this dumb thread in the dos forum? What does this have to do with Windows 3.1


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Response Number 2
Name: Andy Edwards
Date: April 22, 2002 at 02:58:09 Pacific
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OK - it may be a little off topic but it's a sensible question and deserves a sensible answer.

Yes, there is a small amount of gold inside many computers, more in older models.

In terms of a small computer like a PC, the amount of gold is minimal and no one is going to get rich by stripping the gold and selling it.

But some larger computers - including Cray mainframes - probably contain enough to buy you a coffee, yes. $400 seems a bit optimistic to me though ...


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Response Number 3
Name: moflash
Date: April 22, 2002 at 13:25:48 Pacific
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The question is...can I get win3x to run without the gold and only 8 mb RAM?


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Response Number 4
Name: sure
Date: April 22, 2002 at 20:35:29 Pacific
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windows 3.x will run on 8 megs of ram fine


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Response Number 5
Name: 486 Forever
Date: April 22, 2002 at 20:53:06 Pacific
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It will run on 4 megs fine.


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Response Number 6
Name: moflash
Date: April 23, 2002 at 00:06:43 Pacific
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LOL

People are so helpful here!...just trying to get a laugh. Must be my timing...Oh well! lol



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Response Number 7
Name: PC Freak
Date: April 24, 2002 at 09:27:14 Pacific
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Well, as long as we are being helpful... ;-) (I did get the joke, by the way...)

I've seen Windows 3.1 do pretty well on a 286 with 2MB of ram. (A lot of newer Win3.1 apps probably wouldn't, though...)


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Response Number 8
Name: Henrik
Date: May 13, 2002 at 10:05:05 Pacific
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There is ca 300grams gold per 1ton computer"junk"


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