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trying to decide how much per unit to bid. has anyone scrapped one of these and what were the metal and board values. thanks

My guess would be it falls into the standards of most thin clients and tv media players: small socket or high telco.
There isn’t much to these. One board. A power bracket. And usually some breakout adaptors. A few expensive ones use a socketed mPCIe WiFi card but most are simply soldered chip and etch antenna.

Stuff like this can flip for $10-$25 very easy if it works.
There’s it much in scrap value. Most of the weight is the shell.
I rarely spend more than $1 on thin clients unless they’re AMD ryzen CPUs or Core i7/i9. Which is rather rare.
Most thin clients are intel Atom, AMD ARM, and i3.

On the flip side enterprise level clients tend to have an m2 or mPCIe SSD! Or mSATA. That’s always an easy sell. If the drives weren’t removed.

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Looks like an ARM box. From 2010-2012 listings.
No drive. No controllers. Single USB i/o chip, RAM eePROM. There’s nothing in that box.
Dell claimed “zero client”.
Also known as “dumb terminal”.

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thanks for the reply. so would you think a board worth a dollar and .50 cents worth of steel, or less than that?

Probably less.
I haven’t seen this myself but the terminals I’ve worked on are all about as bare as it gets. Tiny risc processor, not arm here, soldered down
Soldered memory. Guessing 1 or two chips.
Ctu, pair of I/o, networking soc.

My guess would be a 6-8 oz low peripheral or small socket board.
A case. Some wire. And maybe a low peripheral usb breakout. An ounce or so.

They all come apart easily enough. 2-4 screws outside, 3-5 hold the board down. So no work.

Honestly I’d probably be trying to flash them with ThinStation or DDWLx.
Buy at $0.50-$1.00 per, flash and sell for $5-10 plus shipping.

There’s just nothing in these. They usually boot a 1-4 meg rom VM hosting a terminal emulator; with or without a gui.
They’re the equivalent of plugging in a mouse, and keyboard, to a time-share server.

Today the same thing has shrunk down in size to a usb stick you plug into a tv or monitor and host a Bluetooth mouse and KB
They simply mirror a server instance.

I’d bid 50c per unit on estimated quantity and walk away. If I get it it’s more fun of flashing roms than making money. If they’re all doa, I chalk it up to ‘I tried’.

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thanks again