TDC1007 / 1007 / TRW / Rare TRW Processor ?

From: Roger Merchberger <zmerch_at_30below.com>
Date: Tue Apr 20 18:58:22 2004

Rumor has it that Scott Stevens may have mentioned these words:
>I looked at a bunch of the other parts that seller has listed. It's the
>first time in awhile that it's been actually PAINFUL to look at someone's
>pricing at an 'Ebay Store.' Atrociously priced DTL chips; 19.95 each,
>with 25 available. The guy is either getting free listings from eBay, or
>is engaged in a big tax writeoff for the loss he's about to take in
>listing fees.

Not necessarily -- if he only gets a few takers on his Sony CXA1908S chips
(I did a quick search on the 1907S, and I think it's a video control chip
in monitors, but don't quote me ;-) for $65, and that would cover quite a
few ePay listing fees...

One thing: I went to their main site, just to see if they could yank a few
bullets outta their butt, and they have a multi-chip search function, so I
typed in this:

6309
63c09
1773

and I got hundreds of hits - and that was just on 6309. Once I saw the part
numbers, tho, I realized it was a very forgiving search function, so I
narrowed it down a bit.[1]

I put in:
63c09
wd1773

and they have *access*[2] to both the Hitachi 63C09 (faster Moto6809
compatible CPU with more registers & some 32bit functions) and the Western
Digital 1773 floppy disk controller chip used in the CoCo disk controllers.
Both of these chips are *very* rare, and there's one webpage I was subbed
to (until they sent me a bill for $130/quarter to continue using it) that
kept searchable chip inventory listings for other companies. I put in a few
requests for quotes with those companies, and they never got back to me.... :-/

Now, if this guy/company can get me some each of those chips...
reasonably... good service (hell, any service would help WRT these chips)
may merit a premium price, as long as it doesn't break the bank. And...
according to his inventory list, it looks like he's got some Hitachis in
stock[3]...

I'm entertaining idears of putting in an RFQ, just to see.... maybe it
could turn out well, maybe it would just be entertaining... ???

Anywho, laterz...
Roger "Merch" Merchberger

[1] For example, 1773 would bring up 17.73xxxxx Mhz crystals, nowhere near
what I'm interested in...
[2] No prices or "instock" inventories on the webpage, everythings "RFQ" ->
Request for Quote
[3] No price... of course... looks like he only lists the prices for what's
got active ePay auctions for...

--
Roger "Merch" Merchberger -- sysadmin, Iceberg Computers
zmerch_at_30below.com
What do you do when Life gives you lemons,
and you don't *like* lemonade?????????????
Received on Tue Apr 20 2004 - 18:58:22 BST

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