Surplus Scores!

[J.D. McEachin]

Mr. Romeo MS20 was in town visiting, so I took him to a few local
electronics surplus stores.  One place had 2 big boxes full of IC tubes
(many of them full of chips) at US$2.50 a tube.  I started digging, looking
for interesting stuff. Lots of oddball 74LS and 74HCT TTL chips.  I didn't
see any 4000 series CMOS.  Then I spied some 8 legged critters.  TL071s.
Score!  I dug up a tube of OP215s, NE5534s, and a tube of REF02s, a temp.
stable 5V reference (we thought this was a tube of OP07s, because there were
a few stuck in the tube).  About 100 chips in all for $7.50.  Oh, and I also
got a long Accutronics spring reverb tank for $6.  I'm just hoping it has a
decent input/output impedance so I can use it in my 2600...

Surplus electronics stores rule!
JDM
Synthcom Systems, Inc.
http://www.synthcom.com/