> As you have said, many of those parts are certainly worth more than
> a PIC. But if you have salvaged those parts from dumped PC boards,
> then the PIC's value becomes much higher.

How about to be just plain mean with power ? Or space ? Take the
example of the Subject line - an HDD board would look out of place.
And there's the challenge of back-engineering too. Sometimes it's
a yawn-mungous chore but there's nothing like that 0.1 second of
elation after days work on something that nobody else probably gives
a stuff about ;-)

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