[sdiy] Fake CEM3374?

[Doug Terrebonne]

Yes 3374s were made into the mid-90s for EWIs and the OB-Mx. However with regard to the auction the pic is for "reference only" and not a pic of the actual item. Kind of important and fake chips from China are nothing new.

Doug 
synthparts.com

--- On Sun, 11/13/11, Louis van Dompselaar <louis at dompselaar.org> wrote:

> From: Louis van Dompselaar <louis at dompselaar.org>
> Subject: Re: [sdiy] Fake CEM3374?
> To: "sdiy diy" <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
> Date: Sunday, November 13, 2011, 4:01 AM
> I have one here marked 9348. 
> Had it for a while.  Got it in a trade from someone and
> never tested it so can't be sure it's real.  Mine's a
> pull.
> 
> By the way, check this pic from an EWI 3020:
> 
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/37595587@N00/4819714573/in/set-72157624437857911
> 
> if real, it does show a CEM3374 with 1993 date code. 
> If not real, someone's gone to great lengths faking these
> images...
> 
> 
> Op 13 nov. 2011, om 11:01 heeft Bob Weigel het volgende
> geschreven:
> 
> > PS the date code that is on this chip they listed is
> from 1993 it appears. They probably ceased production on
> those int he late 80's didn't they?  I mean..mid 80's
> synths used them and all production.  I filed a
> report...recommend everyone else does the same if there is
> no way these can be real.  I mean... I think all of us
> know that it's a total joke to just ask an arbitrary vender
> peddling obviously fake marked cem3374's in an SOP8
> package... and then he miraculously comes up with 10ea. of
> the real thing.  lol.
> 
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