I only
recently heard about people specializing in collecting
individual chips rather than whole systems. It makes perfect sense
from a collecting perspective now that I've heard of it, but I'd never
considered the idea myself. Do you purposefully look for specific
chips? Are you satisfied in removing them from shipping systems or do
you try to find "virgin" chips in their shipping tubes?
I don't 'collect' chips so much as I accumulate them. I recently
Me too... I have no interest in becoming a 'stamp collector' and going
over-the-moon because I've got an EPROM in a purple ceramic package or
whatever. I do accumulate any old chips that are no longer available that
I can find. A frienf gave ne a large carrier bag of obscure TTL, for
example -- things like the BCD-Binary conversion ROMs, ALUs, etc.
I use said chips for repairs, homebrewing, etc.
-tony