[FarmerPotato]

I worked in DRAM salvage from 1987-88. It became niche profitable to harvest 4116s from years-old boards (4164s if you could get them) and put them right back into 256K memory expansion boards for PC ATs.

256K bytes of RAM that way made us $128 in sales. I earned $3.35 an hour. Any inventory I accumulated went out the door next morning.

It was a brief moment, but it makes me wonder if we'll see refurbished memory in fashion next year.

BTW the company, OEM Parts, was one of the last great surplus shops, surviving until just recently. Probably there were still cardboard bins with my handwriting for all the TTL chips that weren't in demand.

[vitally3643]

No joke, at my startup we had to inventory all our unused prototype hardware to see how much memory we could reclaim. Last month.

We are not launching our product this year. We can scrape together enough memory for shareholder and show floor demo units, but we have tens of thousands of people on the waiting list and we simply can't get that much memory at any price. What we can get would mean a $400 price bump.

What the hell do you even do?