Spare Chips - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

21 May 1997

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   I have found
what seems to be a decent supply of eproms.  I was  looking at
  an old 2400 baud fax modem for my pc, and noticed
that it had what  looked
  like an eprom on it.  I pulled the chip and
peeled off the label,  and it was
  a 27256 eprom.  I also bought a 2400 baud modem
at a thrift store  for $2.00
  and it had a 27128 eprom in it.  This was cheaper
than buying the  eprom by
  itself. I paid $3.00 for a 2764, and didn't
even price a 27128.  I  am going
  to start picking up all of the old cheap, almost
worthless modems  and
  grabbing the eproms out of them.  You can
probably pick up the modem  for
  less than the price of the eprom that it holds. 
If anyone else  knows of a
  cheap source of eproms or other chips, share it
with us.  
 This is a great suggestion, worthy of the FAQ. 
Beware that you don't  
 cannabalize what could be considered a classic
peripheral though.  
 We pretty much cleaned out the Dallas 1st Saturday sale a few months
 ago of cheap boards that had eproms.  Gobs of 2764's for $0.25, plenty
 o 27128's, but very few bigger chips.  One notable exception.  Some
 strange board in a tiny pizzal style box.  for $10 we got 4x 1-meg
 80-ns 30-pin simms, a 27128, and *8* 27010's and a few other useful
 chips.

 -Mp