IBM mainframe goes for 99 cents

[John Allain]

> A PC part is worth roughly 1/100th of it's
> value over about a 10-12 year time frame,

That's just Moore's Law, here's the math...
    2.000 x  in  1.5 years    is
    1.587 x  in  1.0 year      is
   101.6 x  in 10.0 years
*

I think the other rule (that people already know)
is that when something goes below a value
of about 50¢/lb, sellers don't want to carry the thing
around any more, the price then crashes, the thing
is scrapped and the rebound begins.

John A.
* kind of as neat and easy as 10bits = 1K