Spare Chips

From: Matt Pritchard <MPritchard_at_ensemble.net>
Date: Wed May 21 23:47:44 1997

> > I have found what seems to be a decent supply of eproms. I was
> looking at
> > an old 2400 baud fax modem for my pc, and noticed that it had what
> looked
> > like an eprom on it. I pulled the chip and peeled off the label,
> and it was
> > a 27256 eprom. I also bought a 2400 baud modem at a thrift store
> for $2.00
> > and it had a 27128 eprom in it. This was cheaper than buying the
> eprom by
> > itself. I paid $3.00 for a 2764, and didn't even price a 27128. I
> am going
> > to start picking up all of the old cheap, almost worthless modems
> and
> > grabbing the eproms out of them. You can probably pick up the modem
> for
> > less than the price of the eprom that it holds. If anyone else
> knows of a
> > cheap source of eproms or other chips, share it with us.
>
> >This is a great suggestion, worthy of the FAQ. Beware that you don't
>
> >cannabalize what could be considered a classic peripheral though.
>
> We pretty much cleaned out the Dallas 1st Saturday sale a few months
> ago of cheap boards that had eproms. Gobs of 2764's for $0.25, plenty
> o 27128's, but very few bigger chips. One notable exception. Some
> strange board in a tiny pizzal style box. for $10 we got 4x 1-meg
> 80-ns 30-pin simms, a 27128, and *8* 27010's and a few other useful
> chips.
>
> -Mp
>
Received on Wed May 21 1997 - 23:47:44 BST

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