12 Jun
2001
12 Jun
'01
3:23 p.m.
You're right of course, about the PCB's that are of interest to you, but what
about the ones that aren't? I've often snagged boards, not because I knew and
wanted what they do, but because I knew and wanted what the IC's on the board
could do and I wanted that in my inventory. I once built up a very-wide-word
ALU using parts salvaged from several discrete DSP boards I was able to scrounge
<snip>
from a scrapper. I got them out of the dumpster, BTW,
so they didn't cost
anything. I've never seen so many 74S283's in one
application since then.
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony Duell" <ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2001 4:23 PM
Subject: Re: Ebay horror ...
It is, perhaps, an honorable sentiment, what you suggest, Tony, but not
practical if you expect your hobby to help support itself.
I find this annoying, BTW. I don't know exactly what the gold on a card
edge is worth, but it can't be more than a few pounds. Often the
complete PCB is worht a lot more than that to me -- to be used in the
machine it was supposed to run in. As it is, the only use for the PCB is
to have the 'interesting' ICs removed (generally things like 2900 series,
ECL, etc)
-tony