Speaking of gold-plated chips, I'm finally scrapping the last remnants of a Redactron mag card word processor; the main board has some house numbered white ceramic chips with the usual gold pins and lids (24, 40, 16 pins).
Any interest for decoration/jewelry/exploration/whatever? Also some Burroughs boards with their odd square package. Finally, some Burroughs memory boards containing what I think are 2102s, but I'd have to investigate. m On Sat, Jan 21, 2023 at 1:43 PM John Herron via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > Earlier chips would have gold and later ceramic or black to save money. > With RAM being expensive it was common to take whatever you had and toss it > in your next system or an expansion card so that may be what you're seeing > from a previous owner. > > On Sat, Jan 21, 2023, 12:14 PM Chris via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> > wrote: > > > Well the latgest question I have is whether early NEC chips with any > lida > > were commonly used to populate tne 5162. And if your lids aren't gold > > plated, is the lid aluminum or some related alloy? >
