26 Oct
2016
26 Oct
'16
6:07 a.m.
From: allison
What vendor
I don't recall, would have to look it up; I turned Guy onto them, and he
bought out everything they in stock.
They have been scarce save though resellers that have
NOS parts from
old stocks and they are not cheap and unpredictable quantities.
Yeah, that vendor said they could get more (apparently from others who still
had stocks), but they'd be slightly more expensive. Apparently these people
all interact, and deal stuff around.
So that figure I was given of 30K in stock is probably not from that one
vendor, but across all of them. But since nobody is using these chips in a
product (that I know of), I suspect the number is likely to go down only
slowly.
Then I could buy them they are about .86 dollar US,
but that was in the
early 80s.
The ones Guy and I recently bought were about $1 each (I don't recall the
exact amount, would have to check). So not cheap, but not ridiculous.
Noel
26 Oct
26 Oct
6:14 a.m.
On Oct 26, 2016, at 9:07 AM, Noel Chiappa <jnc at
mercury.lcs.mit.edu> wrote:
The trouble with chip resellers is that it's hard to know which ones are legit, and
which ones are in the fake chip business. There have been some articles in the trade
press about chips being sold with false labels, typically with some sort of chip inside
but not anything like what the number on the outside indicated. You might get a memory
chip instead of a microprocessor, for example, or a 7400 instead of something more
valuable.
paul
...
So that figure I was given of 30K in stock is probably not from that one
vendor, but across all of them. But since nobody is using these chips in a
product (that I know of), I suspect the number is likely to go down only
slowly. 
8:29 a.m.
The trouble with chip resellers is that it's hard
to know which ones are leg$
And then there are the periodic mentions of supposed chip vendors who
ask you what package and what pin count when you ask them for a part
that has never existed except in one version.
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