I'd save it a few more years ! Sipke de Wal ------------------------------------------ http://xgistor.ath.cx ------------------------------------------ ----- Original Message ----- From: Russ Blakeman To: Classic computers message group Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 8:20 PM Subject: Q: "purple"ish" Intel C80287-3 from '83 with gold legs/top Ok while going through the mass of crap I've collected together and finally gotten losse from my storage trailer, I came across an Intel math coprocessor, with gold legs and cap on the "purplish" grey ceramic. On the pin 1 side you can see a thin gold plate (the chip itself I guess) in the index spot and on the opposite end it has a rectangle filled with epoxy. It also has a gold stripe from the center cap to the #1 pin index mark. Is this worth a crap or am I just disillusioned by the enormous amount that the 8080a went for on eBay a few weeks ago?