Intel C8080A chip brings $565 on EBAY

From: John Foust <jfoust_at_threedee.com>
Date: Mon Nov 19 08:32:46 2001

At 09:17 PM 11/18/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>Better yet, give me all those old "worthless" purple C8080A's you have
>laying around. I'll give you
>$1 ea. for them so you won't feel like you're taking advantage of an
>"idiot".

No, these complainers about the free market's prices
are just sad that their warehouse is full of junk that
doesn't fetch high prices.

I can't believe that any nerd on this mailing list would
denigrate a chip collector. It's like the original Swiftian
little-endian versus big-endian argument. But then again,
maybe I think this way only because if I'm going to junk
a piece of unusable computer equipment, or if I discover
an unrecoverable wreck, I'll always yank the interesting chips.

On the other hand, wearing a name tag that says "John Galt"
in a room full of techies is an unpardonably cheesy offense.

- John
Received on Mon Nov 19 2001 - 08:32:46 GMT