Intel C8080A chip brings $565 on EBAY

From: Richard Erlacher <edick_at_idcomm.com>
Date: Mon Nov 19 09:34:59 2001

Back in the early days of 64k DRAMs, the COORS ceramics were described as having
too much radioactivity for use in high-density memories. I'm not sure that was,
in fact, the case, but somebody seems to have thought so. Do you suppose they
fixed that? Coors was a leader, in the '60's in porcelain tooling and other
such oddities, not to mention having "perfected" the draw-and-iron process for
making thin-walled aluminum beverage cans.

Dick

----- Original Message -----
From: "Douglas Quebbeman" <dhquebbeman_at_theestopinalgroup.com>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 7:37 AM
Subject: RE: Intel C8080A chip brings $565 on EBAY


> > It's very late run ceramic. Ceramic for chip substrates only comes from a
> > few vendors one being a beer maker in the rockies a few in the far east and
> > Europe.
>
> heh... actually, Adolph Coors spun-off its non-brewery assets in 1992
> into ACX Technologies, and most recently, CoorsTek (formerly Coors
> Ceramics) was spun-off into a wholly separate company on Jan 1, 2000.
>
> -dq
>
>
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