Gordon J. C. Pearce wrote
On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 11:44 -0400, Barber, Brennan wrote:
Hi,
I cam across your posting and wanted to see if you also collected IC's?
Finding other collectors is a rarity for me so I thought I would shoot
you and e-mail. I collect clones (russian, eastern block, etc.), Intel
engineering samples and any IBM cpus.
I prefer to keep the ICs in the boards ;-)
Seconded. Chip collectors are to computer collectors like a hypothetical
"nut and bolt" collector would be to a vintage car collector. Could you
imagine: "I don't have room for a model T Ford so I took it apart and made
this great display of the nuts and bolts. I threw the rest of the junk
away. It was all dirty. Look at my collection. They're sorted by
diameter,
thread pitch, Phillips/flat head..."