15 Dec
2008
15 Dec
'08
8:05 p.m.
William Donzelli wrote:
I have a bag of 35 NOS type "MF1103P" dated 722x, 18-pin plastic DIP,
gold-plate
pins, made by Microsystems International Ltd. (a briefly-existent Canadian
chip maker). I believe these were 2nd-sourced 1103's, as MIL also made an
MF8008 and MF1702.
I also have a gold-capped C8008. One idea would be to make a period-style
8008 system with all of it.
If I sell them can I retire to Monte Carlo instead?
It might be
the first microprocessor, (i4004 is just a controller...), but
what really made the microcomputer possible is the DRAM. Why dont people
collect i1103's ?
They do. Some of the early RAM fetches HUGE money. Multiple hundreds
for some of the real raries.