ggm 4 days ago

The point is not that there's gold in the boards, there's been gold mining in old computing equipment forever: We sold an IBM 370 to a recycler and when he saw how many CPU unit's we'd salvaged as souvenirs he dropped his quote massively (this was the generation which had a grid of I think 8x8 chips embedded in a huge aluminium heatsink which was backed by the water cooling. So it looked like a chip blown up and on steroids, but was a carrier)

The point is that they've found a way to use Cheese producing byproduct to make a n efficient filter returning 50:1 on the input costs.

Whey does make other things too. Like .. whey based cheeses. But I doubt the return is as good as this!

dmitrygr 4 days ago

Oh great! Another source of idiots buying old boards and chips on eBay denying their use and resurrection by actual retro collectors. Destroying history.

I had to bid against them already making my Intel 4004 based project.

Depressing