Vintage Simmons Drums (UK) Users Group

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
>