> > 6. There are FAR more chips than there are vintage computers. Without
> > chip collectors there would not be much of a market for all these chips.
> > Sure you would be able to buy an C8008 for 1$ then but... You would also
> > have people throwing the old chips in the trash because they were not
> > worth listing on EBAY.
> If there were far more chips than vintage computers, "chip collectors"
> would not be searching out old computer boards to steal chips from. If the
> chips were more common than the computers they make up, "chip collectors"
> would have no trouble sourcing the parts they desire for their
> "collection"... Hrm, doesn't that defeat the purpose of collecting chips,
> if they are not **RARE**?
Well, I have to admit, I salvaged computer board on a regular base
(and still do this (*1)). Basicly my whole pile of spare parts are
used chips. I can relate to do so, so no hard feeling in the basic
facts. I just get terrible upset about ship collecting when I see
what is taken from the boards... just two or three components with
'great' names, and throw away the rest. The real raere stuff lies
among the support chips or just plain TTLs. A 8080 CPU replacement
is still quite easy to come by, but what about some weired shift
registers, or clock generators?
The kind of scrapping done here is to me like some self proclaimed
hunter shoot aTiger just to get a photo (since they are not allowed
to get the fur legaly back home), or poachers who shoot an Elephant
just to sell the teeth to some which doctors, and let teh rest rot
away. Don't get me wrong, I'm a meat eater, and I got no problem in
killing an animal. Just if I doo so, the whole cadaver is supposed
to be processed.
Gruss
H.
(*1) Now everybody is free to jump on me for using a heatgun to
unsolder a bunch of 8080 boards last week.
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