TDC1007 / 1007 / TRW / Rare TRW Processor ?

Rumor has it that Scott Stevens may have mentioned these words: 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(a)30below.com What do you do when Life gives you lemons, and you don't *like* lemonade?????????????