16 Dec
2008
16 Dec
'08
7:30 a.m.
On 15 Dec 2008 at 11:06, jim s wrote:
I see these chips have no solder on the leads, so are
probably pretty
pristine specimens.
Might only mean that the chips were socketed (given the period price
of an 8008, not an unreasonable idea).
I wonder if a really workable counterfeit could made
from other than a
different chip with new paint? Hopefully that won't happen, but with
this kind of money involved who knows.
How many chip collectors actually test the chips they receive?
According to some (fairly) reputable sources, chip counterfeiting
isn't all that uncommon:
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/may06/3423
I sometimes wonder if all of the Chinese sites that pop up when
you're doing a web search for a datasheet aren't part of this action.
Cheers,
Chuck