[sdiy] Weird hobby of the week: Chip-colecting!

[Barry Klein]

So, when you sell these old chips on ebay - do they have to work?
I may have a fortune in my garage and not know it...

Barry


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
[mailto:owner-synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl] On Behalf Of Daniel Araya
Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 3:35 AM
To: synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
Subject: [sdiy] Weird hobby of the week: Chip-colecting!

It's friday so I thought I'll share something amusing:

http://www.antiquetech.com/ 


My favourite quotes:

"There is a general debate in the collecting community as to which is
better, individual chips or mounted chips."

"Pulled or desoldered chips are a fact of life in chip collecting."

"Carefully pulled chips can be aesthetically very pleasing.

"The Common Chip Grading Methodology (CCGM) provides for a 100 point
scale, not dissimilar to coin grading."


The funniest part is the collector archetypes page decribing the
conflicts and relationships between different types of chip-collectors!
http://www.antiquetech.com/hobby/Collection%20Archetypes.htm 


I think it's good that people guard our technological heritage but
sometimes it goes a _bit_ too far... :)


/d