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johnorun



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PostPosted: Sat Jun 21, 2014 9:01 pm    Post subject: What's Inside This Box? Reply with quote

I thought I would start a thread for those of us that invest (waste) some money in interesting vintage components to see if there is a C4004 or other surprise chip inside.
The only purpose of the thread is to show what we actually find inside the metal boxes that we hope will hold a surprise.

Please feel free to post your finds here.

Here a some recent items I have opened up....and some I wish I hadn't.

I bought this 1991 APOLLO II Morrow Aviation GPS cheaply on EBAY, opened it up and found a NEC V25 CPU plus a socketed AMD N80C188-12.

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PostPosted: Sat Jun 21, 2014 9:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

This week I found this mid-1970's NOS EAGLE SIGNAL TRAFFIC CONTROL CONFLICT MONITOR LT 200 and spent $25 for it on Ebay.

C4004 chips were used in early traffic light controllers and this looked like the right type of box to take a chance on and the big gold-pin connector in the front told me a board must be inside.

Turns out the chips were from the 1970's...but no jackpot here Crying or Very sad
I may have to salvage the Gold connector pins to make some of my money back. (Anyone want some nice NOS Potter & Brumfield relays??)

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PostPosted: Sun Jun 22, 2014 8:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hey John, that's a nice idea which can save some money. ... and increase bids on some other boxes, lol.

I'll take a peak on my stuff, didn't buy boxes recently but will share what I know.
As a first hint - but already documented here - the Kienzle Taxameter 1140 works with P4004, as I heared from an old Kienzle engineer they never used C or D packages.
In early ones you might find Siemens clones, at least from a 4002-1 memory.
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