Well, I finally got them.
YES they were copies but done very well (bit for bit). The labeles
are close copies of the originals but they are vinyl whereas I
believe most of my original chips had both plastic and paper
versions. The chips themselves are Intel and AMD brands (actually I
don't think you CAN buy a "cheap" windowed eprom).
Anyway... I'm happy with the purchase and I actually was only charged
4.95 for shipping on the whole lot.
--- In Simmons_Drums@yahoogroups.com, gordon@... wrote:
>
> > It's a woman selling these and the chips suck.
> > Again, cheap laser copied Simmons lables. If they were just
eproms, why
> > does she need to put the Simmons label on them?
> > A couple people I know have been burned by these cheap eproms
fished
> > out of old printers and had sound blown on them.
> > Try to avoid at all costs.
>
> From earlier discussions it sounds like it's the way they are copied
> that's the problem.
>
> You don't get "cheap eproms", they're all pretty much made by the
same fab
> and cost about the same. In any case, it doesn't make the
slightest bit
> of difference what they were used for before.
>
> And - as Jesper says - they're always worth checking for crunchy
goodness
> before erasing. One of my favourites is an EGA BIOS ROM...
>
> Gordon
>