Intel C8080A chip brings $565 on EBAY

There's a rather small community of chip collectors. However, there are a few collectors who have been collecting for over 10 years now who have put togather pretty vast collections of literally thousands of chips. These collectors have pretty much seen everything. Its pretty rare now that something shows up that these collectors have never seen before and the fact that they have never seen it, by definiton makes it rare. It would be the same as if suddenly someone found two Intelec bit slice 3002 computers dated 1975 in a closet or something. Sure, there might could be more, but if they were common, you guys would have already seen one. As far as the color, chip collectors refer to that color chip as "purple". If you look at it next to a normal "gray" CerDIP, you can see the difference. Besides, it would not have mattered had it been black. The fact is, it's not the white/gold color of a normal Intel C8080A. The printing on the chip is also somewhat different. My guess is it's a late run C8080A that was put in the same package they used for some of the later C8085AH's. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sellam Ismail" <foo(a)siconic.com> To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org> Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 1:23 AM Subject: Re: Intel C8080A chip brings $565 on EBAY Festival ---- http://www.vintage.org