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tlccomp
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JAC
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| Someone with time on their hands has split open the ceramic packages. |
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Chiefish
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heh heh heh I was looking at those today myself and was just thinking what a shame, as on the bottoms I can see some Intel logos with date codes.
I wouldnt be surprised if someone else starts advertising chips like those as Grey Trace Chips hah hah hah
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debs3759
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If they get any serious bids as gold scrap, maybe I should open up the tens of thousands of grey ceramic TTL chips I have and claim they are good for gold 
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johnorun
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| debs3759 wrote: | | If they get any serious bids as gold scrap, maybe I should open up the tens of thousands of grey ceramic TTL chips I have and claim they are good for gold |
Debs, with "thousands" of these, you might be a goldmine for scrappers!
Go for it while Gold is still high.
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tlccomp
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| Chiefish wrote: | | I wouldnt be surprised if someone else starts advertising chips like those as Grey Trace Chips hah hah hah |
A couple of clear coats of epoxy.... now you have me thinking 
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Chiefish
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Looks like a multicell chip to me 
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magictom
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| But it is interesting; it seems the manufacturers used a lot more gold in the "good old days", 70s or 60s ... Time to open a few of those old ICs. |
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debs3759
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| johnorun wrote: | | debs3759 wrote: | | If they get any serious bids as gold scrap, maybe I should open up the tens of thousands of grey ceramic TTL chips I have and claim they are good for gold |
Debs, with "thousands" of these, you might be a goldmine for scrappers!
Go for it while Gold is still high. |
The best thing about it is that they don't need to have any gold content - they just need to be photographed in light that makes it look like they do And as I got given a large sack fulll of them (over 100 pounds) I could be laughing - I just have to learn to be dishonest (or act ignorant) in the listing
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johnorun
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| debs3759 wrote: |
The best thing about it is that they don't need to have any gold content - they just need to be photographed in light that makes it look like they do And as I got given a large sack fulll of them (over 100 pounds) I could be laughing - I just have to learn to be dishonest (or act ignorant) in the listing |
Well, if they are early 1980's or earlier and are brown/grey ceramic 'D' style sandwich chips, they most likely have a Gold die cavity, so you should open a few up and show those in the listing, and you won't have to even feel guilty!!
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magictom
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Hey, I don't even need to crack open my chips - just a little Photoshop will do wonders:
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