Intel C8080A chip brings $565 on EBAY

From: Douglas Quebbeman <dhquebbeman_at_theestopinalgroup.com>
Date: Mon Nov 19 10:23:02 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.

My 8k EconoRAM IV, one of the first S-100 boards to use DRAM, used the
very chips that supposedly had that problem. I've been told mine are
OK, but it used to be a bit flaky; however, I always blamed that on
the state of the early S-100 systems and my soldering work on the SOL
to which it was attached... I solder *much* better now... -dq
 
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