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

[anthony]

> 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...
>
I was wondering what some of my huge collection of chips are worth.

MN3006's - $12 on eBay.
MN3007's - $25 at some stomp-box parts site

Are these really worth this much? I mean would people really pay it?

MN3006's are actually pretty cool when you gang a bunch of them up together.
(But I'm guessing that they'd be even cooler in concert with a MN3007.)

It doesn't matter because I'm not collecting them I'm going to use them,
but I suppose I'd trade 'em for something really cool.
I have a talent for finding them by accident.

I wonder how much my YMF262/YAC512 combo would be worth.
Not a lot probably. I'm using 'em for a OPL3 MIDI box anyways.

All of the 'vintage' CMOS and TTL chips that I have.
Junk to anyone else but me. Except maybe the military spec stuff. (My 
favorites are the 54S163's)
I was sad when I found out about doomed old CMOS chips.

At the end of the day, I'm too busy thinking of cool ways to use the chips I 
have collected rather than arranging them like stamps or baseball cards.

I guess I shouldn't knock it if someone really does get enjoyment out of it, 
but I really hope they would use SOME of them for SOMEthing. Otherwise it's 
liek people collecting paintings and keeping them in a vault to trade like 
commodities. That kind of thing makes me sick.

I suppose I /do/ have some chips that I could consider "collected" now that 
I think of it.
I have a a few '387 math coprocessors (it makes me giggle to think how much 
these cost new).
I have an inmos chip from a video card that looks like it's trimmed out in 
bling bling. I forget what it's called. It's a G171-S-35C.