19 Aug
2013
19 Aug
'13
7 p.m.
On 08/19/2013 02:05 PM, dwight elvey wrote:
Tony
Read Eric and my later post. He corrected me.
Intel was clever at selling half bad parts.
The one I loved was their 2758 ( maybe 2508 ) parts.
These were cataloged as "5 volt only 2708's"
to compete with TI's 2508's
What they really where was half bad 2716's.
They were even marked with a H or L for the
address bit.
What I loved best about it was that the 2758's
were selling for $32 while the 2716 parts were
selling for under $4.
That, I call good marketing.
Dwi
Intel did the same with early 16K (2117) DRAMs. I have a bunch of
(IIRC) DRAMs with a number appended that indicates if you should use the
upper or lower 8K of the chip.
I got mine for the asking from our local Intel sales guy who opined that
it was probably not in his or Intel's best interest to try to sell such
stuff.
--Chuck