New chip broker in town

gmanbc · Joined: 27 Dec 2004 Posts: 513 Location: Korea

I will soon be retireing from the Army and am looking for work Crying or Very sad

Actually, I think I have found a business oportunity that can help us all. I have been overpaying for my chips for about 4 years now through several chip brokers and I am working a deal to buy one of them out. If this works out then I will be able to get a lot of the rare chips at about a third of what I have been paying and then maybe I can pass on the savings to you all:D

How this would work would be you all tell me what chip is most wanted and then I go and look. The more buyers the cheaper the cost. The only issue is then finding a chip that everyone wants... I can tell you right now that short of someone coming along and posting some more C4004 or C4040s you won't see any of these as I bought them all about four years ago Shocked

and I haven't seen any since.

What do you all think? What chip would you like me to find first? It will be about month or two before I can pull this together as I am still stationed in Korea but as soon as I get back to the states and get set up I can run with this.

Of course, if this doesn't work out, I will have to get a real job ...Would you like fries with that sir Crying or Very sad

Lee

sammyc · Joined: 09 Dec 2005 Posts: 1668 Location: Scottish Borders

I want a grey trace 4004 please! Smile

And a Black top IBM PR266

And an Athlon SLOT A 850Mhz and 950Mhz

and Sub 20Mhz 386 Intels

Pleeease

wepwawet · Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 11:31 am Post subject:

However and whatever you get, when you create a internet searchable database include collectot-relevant information like "purple ceramic" or "grey traces", maybe a separate collector database?

Nice idea and good luck!!!

JAC · Joined: 24 Jul 2005 Posts: 3469

Nice army pension and golden handshake I hope Lee!

Yes, as said, the important thing is to get a good inventory list. I'll be here to buy! Smile

wepwawet · Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 12:51 pm Post subject:

sammyc · Joined: 09 Dec 2005 Posts: 1668 Location: Scottish Borders

ahem..

I was first!!!!!

wepwawet · Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 1:50 pm Post subject:

Mixeur · Joined: 06 Jan 2005 Posts: 4038 Location: Sochaux, France

All kind of C8086 would be really nice !

CPUShack · Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 2:02 pm Post subject:

I claim EPROM's Smile

Cpuswe · Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 2:21 pm Post subject:

Sounds like a great idea! I think we are a bunch here at the forum who will help you out to get you started.

On the top of my wishlist are i486 SX-16, any 486/Pentium ES

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