Chip storage - Was: 40 pin DIP chip tubes?

--- On Thu, 3/10/11, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote: Yes, and it's especially bad on the ceramic packages with the fragile side-attached legs - not the ones that exit the package and then bend 90 degrees down, but the ones that are simply attached to the side of the chip body. Don't know what they're called or how better to describe it... But they seem to fare the worst, I've got a few early EPROMs where many of them simply fell off. But something much more annoying, that just happened to me (and prompted the post), was receiving a new, old stock Zilog prototyping part (microcontroller w/ piggyback EPROM socket) that I paid too much for, only to open the package and find it still neatly in it's original little promotional clamshell box. Stuck in that stupid foam. The legs are all still attached, but they're all black with corrosion. I sincerely hope that it will still make suitable contact with a socket. If not, I suppose I can solder it into a machine tooled socket, but... Grumble... -Ian