This week's find

From: Tothwolf <tothwolf_at_concentric.net>
Date: Thu May 9 08:36:16 2002

On Wed, 8 May 2002, Joe wrote:
> At 06:18 PM 5/8/02 -0500, Toth wrote:
>
> >This certainly has to be one of my better finds to date. I'm now the proud
> >owner of 6 brand new i8008 cpus (sorry, not for trade, as I have plans for
> >these.) Finding them the way I did was kinda strange... A couple of days
> >ago, on a whim, I called a local electronics dealer and asked if they had
> >any i8008 chips in stock, and much to my amazement, he had 6 in the parts
> >bin. :)
>
> That's a good lesson for we scroungers.
>
> I ALWAYS check for unusual parts when I go to a new electronic parts
> place. I almost always find something interesting. I went in a place
> a few weeks ago and found a NIB Intel bubble memory. I check for
> HP-IL cables (surplus places NEVER know what they are!), Intel 4xxx
> parts, etc etc.

What types of parts should one be looking for exactly? Is there a list of
stuff like this that someone has compiled somewhere? I'm sure there are
still some good bits at that shop, and I'm planning to go back again today
if I get time. If I find more i8008s or other extra parts I won't be
needing, I'll set some aside for trades. I've been buying parts from them
since the mid 1980s, but just never thought about looking for an i8008
there. Those chips had probably been sitting there for 20 years.

-Toth
Received on Thu May 09 2002 - 08:36:16 BST