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

[Jay Schwichtenberg]

Speaking of such things has me wondering.

Does anyone have any of those PDP-8s on a chip they want to sell for cheap?

Think they were made by Intersil.

Thanks
Jay S.

> -----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
>