[sdiy] Old ICs: Identify, Value, FS

[Andre Majorel]

On 2013-10-14 16:01 -0400, Nathanael King wrote:

> I have a mess of stuff I bought from an older fellow getting out of
> his electronics business. The one scope I got made the two dragging
> carloads worth it, but I'm left with a mess of stuff.
> http://www.paperproductsmusic.com/images/oldic.zip

They look like logic chips, mostly from the second half of the
seventies. EPROMs, 8080 processors... The SMC COM2502 are UARTs
(think RS-232). The chips with the golden lids intrigue me.
Never seen that "TTY" marking before.

None of these are very likely to be useful in new projects. Main
use I see for them these days is repairing digital equipment
from that era. Do you know any retrocomputing fans in your area ?

http://www.cpu-sammlung.de/ says "Welcome to my historical
Chip-Collection. I'm looking forward to every CPU-donation,
trade or swap".

These things will one day be seen as precious relics of
humankind's first forays into information processing. On display
in museums behind thick glass or bought by rich collectors at
ridiculous prices.

We will all be long dead, though. :-)

-- 
André Majorel http://www.teaser.fr/~amajorel/