15 Nov
2010
15 Nov
'10
8:03 a.m.
From: tshoppa at wmata.com
E-bay pricing can be bizarre and I would argue is not always
representative of the "real world". Jameco lists
Ceramic DIP64 68000 (pulls almost certainly) for $9.95 and
I would expect them to work.
Jameco used to have early dynamic DRAM's and shift registers
By the metric buttload (e.g. 1103's, 2504's) presumably pulls but
In other cases maybe a little closer to "floor sweepings for hobbyists".
Having worked with 1103's I would argue that by modern standards
Even the "cream of the crop" were little above floor sweepings.
Tim.
Hi Tim
I was once buying some 2114s from Jameco and got a bad
batch. I contacted them and they told me how they work.
First, if it is known to be pulls, they state that up front.
Most of the older chips are from stock rooms of companies
that are clearing older stock or have gone out of business.
As such, the parts are untested. They could have been bad
parts from a production line that someone was collecting
or just some NOS. They have no way to test them.
They were quite nice about replacing bad one. If it didn't
work, they replaced them without other questions.
I doubt any of the sellers of 'out of production' parts do any
better so I continue to do business with them when they
have parts I'm looking for. For mail order, they are easy
to deal with.
I am close enough to them that I can do will-call but
mostly just have stuff shipped. I've gotten wrong parts
and they will replace them as well. Like any large where
house, things do often get mixed up and the guys that
pulls the parts often wouldn't know a transistor from a resistor.
Smaller operations can be better but these guys are not a
one person company.
Dwight