"In the market for some cheap gold?, patient enough to test and unbend Pins?"

cpus-4-gold

Is that a thing people do now? Scavenging gold out of broken processors, like modern, nerdy, hunched-over-a-computer-desk rag & bone men?

To answer our own question, yes it is and it appears to be quite the grim task.

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  • Feral Techie
    May 30, 2012 - 9:27 am | Permalink

    Gold recovery is dead in this country – you can’t compete with Chinese orphans. Those little blighters work for food, and not much food.

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