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    If im not mistaking thos are old CPU chips. Or IC chips. They are not in the same category as the $6 a pound chips but more in the $100 plus a pound category. I could be wrong and if I am please correct me. I think those might be something you want to find a collector to buy.


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    Quote Originally Posted by PartTimeScrapper View Post
    If im not mistaking thos are old CPU chips. Or IC chips. They are not in the same category as the $6 a pound chips but more in the $100 plus a pound category. I could be wrong and if I am please correct me. I think those might be something you want to find a collector to buy.
    Yeppers, those would be in the $80-$100 or more per pound range. Very nice find.
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    Many thanks for the nice comments.
    @ D-D
    I met him through a CL add offering to pickup old electronics gathering dust etc. It was definitely my coolest E-cycling adventure yet. He lived in a beautiful home cantilevered off the side of a mountain near the UC Berkeley campus -- very cool views of Oakland, the Bay and San Francisco. He was (or maybe still is) an engineer/scientist at the UC Berkeley Space Science Laboratory (SSL) -- the address was listed on many of the old boxes he gave me. SSL is a fascinating institution that does NASA/military research. Edward Teller was one of the first lab directors in the late 1950s.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Sciences_Laboratory
    I have no idea why he gave me all this stuff. I guess he just wanted to clean out the house.

    @ Miked
    He gave me boxes of stuff and 15 of these chips were stored in a couple of special static-free trays.
    I'll take some photos of some other stuff in the boxes.

    I also posted over at the CPU-World forum to get some insights about these chips. In about 10 minutes I got an interesting tidbit of info from a guy in Estonia.
    They are apparently static RAM (SRAM) chips made during week 26 of 1977.
    http://www.cpu-world.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=17719

    The web has made communication/info-sharing so awesome.
    I've only been doing E-cycling for a couple of weeks, but Silicon Valley seems to be a wonderfully rich area for this sort of thing.
    Last edited by ElectricMetal; 01-29-2012 at 05:56 PM.

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