Getting Gold From Computer Scrap

I don't think working with hazardous materials like nitric, HCL AND H2O2 at home, in my spare time, sounds like fun.

But if you are recovering a significant of precious metals at home then I guess it can be worthwhile ..... Until you blow up something. Then the little woman comes out to the garage (or what's left of it!) and sees you with your hair singed off and shredded clothes mumbling something about "oops".

Has anyone ever done an old commodore or a cash register? I picked up some stuff today and those were in there.

That's what I was wondering. It is a personal computer thing. I'll try to get more information.

I plugged up the commodore and it did turn on. I don't know if it functions or not, but it did turn on. Here it is if anyone is interested.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/128-d-commo...em43c3ffdfd7

I'm glad I didn't scrap it now! Thanks Allranger for bringing that to my attention.

That is great! I'm glad you were able to sell it. With any of the old electronics you should check fist. Computers, calculators, old games, telephones, etc. There is a collector market for it.

I collect old computer stuff, not just coins. My first system was the Odyssey 2, Atari with a keyboard basicaly, I also had a TI-99/4a. Let me just say WOW! that item is not a computer, the buyer may have told you already, but I'd just like to say how rare that item is, it was from the Commadore 128 computer system, it's an external floppy drive! In decades of collecting I have only ever seen one of those, and I own it. Every 128 had an inbuilt floppy drive so having a second one was a luxery and really not necessary, you could play a game and save on a second disc instead of having to remove the play disc and put in the save disc, all floppy, The hard drives were extreamely expensive and who wants to spend $10,000 on a glorified Atari 2600. This is in the early to mid '80's before the Macintosh, Microsoft was still on it's way up and was mostly working with businesses. The home computer market was an open playing field. IBM came out with it's PCjr, the junior had a cartrage slot like an Atari but also had DOS and early versions of Windows, very early. Apple was still working on the IIc and IIe, and Commadore had the Vic-20, C-64 and finally the 128 before they broke into the world of GUI (Graphical User Interface... what you use on your screen every day) Atari made it's name with the 2600 and tried doing the 5200 and 7800, they even tried the GUI operating system.

To scrap or not to scrap... it's up to you but as 'Bassmaster' said sold in 12 hours or 12 hours of destroying it, cutting your hands, hammering you fingers... for what? a few grams of gold, maybe. How many Morgan dollars did the mint melt down? This is the same thing but the crazy part about computers is they can look horrid, they can even be in pieces and total 'JUNK' to you. but if it is a special one, it may not be worth scrapping.

So with that said, scrap away, unless I listed it up here, also the game cartarages are worth tons more then any scrap value you might get, even if it is just to take out years of pent up rage at "Frogger" by driving over it.

Edit: Forgot to add the term 'Floppy Disc' comes from the original floppy... most of us still remember the 3.5 inch ones and many may recall the 5.25 inchers but do you recall the EIGHT inchers! yeah 8 inches same form as the 5.25's and they would break at the hole for the reader head if you floppied them too much and become basicly useless!

Good compared to a little bit of gold for someone else, or running your own forge/acid process yeah, take the 130 and go get 1/10 ounce of gold or 6 ounces of silver.
People who collect computers can usually find that type of thing in garage sales for a few bucks if I was buying it I might go to five (I'm just cheap and poor). I could see 60-90 so yeah 130 is pretty nice, unless I'm not keeping up with inflation. but still a good thing to keep it from scrap, keep it up and keep the cash register you'll need it too if you keep making deals like that!