KDF 8189 processor board foobared (ebay warning)

Paul Anderson useddec at gmail.com
Sat May 20 17:20:48 CDT 2017


Hi Jim,

I have the M8189 11/23+ boards here. call me tonight if you want.

Paul

On Sat, May 20, 2017 at 4:59 PM, jim stephens via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:

>
>
> On 5/20/2017 6:12 AM, Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote:
>
>>      > From: Jim Stephens
>>
>>      > I just ran across a sale on epay by a guy who thought you could
>> pull
>>      > the processor chip off the board and sell each in separate
>> auctions.
>>
>> There are a lot of idiotz out there.
>>
> Turned out he had never encountered this situation and was just doing as
> he has done breaking down other scrap.  Pull breakage one way, and keep
> motherboards and the like (per modern pc's) another. Hopefully he will
> share the other parts of the system and we can see what he got.  Not sure
> how far down it is all been taken though.
>
> When pulling apart old stuff 90's test equipment, advertising scrap, and
> the like they make more than trying to treat everything like a museum
> artifact.  The thing is do they keep doing it once you tell them.  I think
> this guy will listen.  we'll see.
> thanks
> Jim
>


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