This is so sad to see...

[Fkazim]

Classic IBM stuff just being destroyed

Something so rare just being destroyed like that.

The sacrilege: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlRlHx1sbu0

[anmq91]

At least there wasn't a beam-spring board that he scrapped along with it! XD These controllers used to be used with beam-springs.

[Fkazim]

Yeah at least it was just the controller but still one less IBM. As if IBM stuff wasn't rare already.

[anmq91]

Yeah at least it was just the controller but still one less IBM. As if IBM stuff wasn't rare already.

I feel ya :/ In Europe it's even harder to come across IBM stuff. I guess it is a case of get what you can while it lasts and treasure it for life!

[Ilostmytoeinvietnam]

this is very upsetting. however, there could be another reason that they are scraping these old pieces of tech. he could be working for some place and not have a say in what he does, but films it. or he could be scraping it for parts, to sell or for personal use.

[Findecanor]

See the comments. He is scrapping it to harvest the gold inside.

[Fkazim]

See the comments. He is scrapping it to harvest the gold inside.

Yeah unacceptable!!! God damn

[-Space-NATO-]

Yeah unacceptable!!! God damn

Gold damn!

[vometia]

Not going to watch the video. I've encountered people who burn stuff to get the metal out and it's extremely unpleasant for anyone else in the vicinity. It's technically illegal but nobody with the power to do anything about it really cares.

[joebeazelman]

Wow! All those big, flat and straight aluminum plates would make excellent flatstock! The dummy doesn’t realize he can get way more if he sold them on eBay. You’d think aluminum is cheap until you ever have to procure some for a machining project. The prices will have you crying.

[Scarpia]

You all do realize that is what we look like to the vintage computing guys. Always cannibalizing some old keyboard for switches or keycaps, thus destroying a perfectly good vintage keyboard that could have completed some collector’s vintage system. I’m not sure we are in a great place to judge the gold guy.

[User101]

You all do realize that is what we look like to the vintage computing guys. Always cannibalizing some old keyboard for switches or keycaps, thus destroying a perfectly good vintage keyboard that could have completed some collector’s vintage system. I’m not sure we are in a great place to judge the gold guy.

I 100% agree

[zrrion]

we still use the stuff though. disassembly and shredding/melting are 2 different things

[Elrick]

See the comments. He is scrapping it to harvest the gold inside.

Yeah unacceptable!!! God damn

Would instead LOVE to see the complete scrapping and destruction of any Razer keyboards .

That would be the most decent approach to eliminating any more worthless Junk, that goes into land Fill across this unfortunate planet.

YES, someone post something of merit and goodness on this Forum site instead of such sad desecration of ancient IBM hardware .

[vometia]

You all do realize that is what we look like to the vintage computing guys. Always cannibalizing some old keyboard for switches or keycaps, thus destroying a perfectly good vintage keyboard that could have completed some collector’s vintage system. I’m not sure we are in a great place to judge the gold guy.

I dunno, old computing costs a fortune to run. I have an account on an actual PDP-10 somewhere and wonder how they can afford to keep it going. I'm reminded of the VaxBar guy who hollowed out a classic Vax 11/780 to turn it into something more useful, i.e. a bar. And that's from someone who loves Vaxes and considers that thing her first proper computing experience (well, a Vax 11/785, as the then Hatfield Poly owned) though as he says, the beastie had already acted as an organ donor for two other 780s so there was little left to remove.

[Polecat]

I worked at a recycling place in the '80s and '90s, and we couldn't give that stuff away. We couldn't afford to warehouse it forever, so the choices were to scrap it for a nickel a pound or to crush it down and put it in the dumpster. I didn't watch the video, but most of the guys here who break things down for scrap don't have ebay accounts or even a vehicle to bring their haul to the recycler. They're looking for their next meal (or dime bag) and living in a Maytag box or on a buddy's couch. That's the reality of the scrap biz, which is tanked right now by the way, because China no longer wants our garbage (imagine that!).