Spare Chips

From: William Donzelli <william_at_ans.net>
Date: Thu May 22 15:17:25 1997

> and pretty difficult to
> damage (e.g. by ESD).

You must be careful with old CMOS - most from the early 1970s will die
quite easily with just a minor shock.

TTL and the others can be abused all day...

> How insane? Are these price so high that I couldn't even consider buying
> one, or would it be worth getting the odd device to restore a particularly
> rare computer, or what?

I think I remember prices in the 25-50 dollar range for common glue.

William Donzelli
william_at_ans.net
Received on Thu May 22 1997 - 15:17:25 BST