Trash or Treasure?

From: Marvin <marvin_at_rain.org>
Date: Sat Feb 6 08:25:18 1999

Andrew Davie wrote:
>
> Hi guys/gals
> I have an old IBM motherboard in front of me, and not really sure if it's
> worth keeping/trading or (gasp) trashing. It's marked "16KB-64KB CPU" on
> the top, 3 of the 4 banks or RAM are occupied. IBM chips are dated
> 1981/1982. Otherwise I don't really know what to look for in identifing
> this.

I would think it is a keeper. It most likely uses 4116 memory chips with
the first bank soldered in and sockets installed for the remaining 3 banks.
There was a discussion some time ago, and I think the concensus was the
64KB-256KB are still somewhat common, the 16-64 are not.

As kind of an aside, "brand" name items seem to retain their value a bit
better than clones, at least from a collecting standpoint. I am seeing this
freqently with test equipment, catalogs, and documentation just to name a
few.
Received on Sat Feb 06 1999 - 08:25:18 GMT