9 Mar
2003
9 Mar
'03
2:29 p.m.
Keep checking eBay for them as I picked up several there for good prices.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Chase" <vaxzilla(a)jarai.org>
To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2003 10:01 PM
Subject: Re: Collecting silicon wafers
On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, Steve Jones wrote:
The San Jose Tech Museum's gift shop has them for sale at prices that
won't break you too badly. IIRC, it was somewhere in the $10-$30 range,
depending on their sizes. It looks like they're available for sale
online: <http://store.thetech.org/slicofsilval.html>
Of course, you can't get to pick and choose them like you would if you
were actually there. When I last visited, they had a variety of wafers
available.
-brian.
Dave Wilson writes:
My
interest is in collecting whole, undiced silicon wafers. These
are much more accessible for research and the interest does not
conflict with those of other people.
[...]
I haven't run across anyone systematically collecting wafers. The
main question I'd have is, where's the supply? If there's not a
large supply of available wafers, how many collectors can there be?
Having opened my mouth and said that, someone will probably tell
me that fab-rich places in Arizona, California, Oregon, and Texas
are using them as wall decorations or something...