> The only one of those that's even marginally hard to find is the 5380.
> AFAIK, the other 2 are either still being made, or at least there are
> plenty of stocks of them (at least over here).
So if anyone actually ever wanted to use the boards the ICs could
be replaced.
> And IMHO there are less rare machines to raid for the 5380 (I won't
> mention any of them, to avoid flames, but, heck, it turns up on some PC
> SCSI cards...)
> > In many cases the only way to repair some classic systems is by
> > cannibalizing others.
>
> Sure, for rare parts, or custom parts, or parts that simply aren't made
> any more. When I found a few boards stuffed with AMD2900 series chips in
> a surplus shop, you can bey I bought them and removed the chips (the
> boards had already had the edge connector fingers cut off to recover the
> gold from them, and anyway I have no idea what they came out of).
>
> But for common, still-easy-to-get parts, I'd rather buy them new than
> strip them out of a classic computer.
Some things aren't worth preserving, like the RRD40.
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Eric Dittman
dittman_at_dittman.net
Received on Mon Apr 23 2001 - 20:29:38 BST