[CPU Collection] What's your Greatest Failure so far?

[xsecret]

OK, I'll go first.

I once bought 1100 ES at once to find later that the lot only had 3 differents QSPEC...

If you want hundreds of QLUR, I'm your man!

[cvandijk]

Bought a lot on eBay a few years ago, unfortunately it contained a lot of pentium 133 mhz.

I don't have a QLUR, perhaps you can do a little sale with the ones you have to many?

[crazybubba64]

[debs3759]

October 2014 these were first (and last) listed for sale. Time for another round

[ph4nt0m]

Once upon a time I bought a pretty rare piece of computer audio hardware as it was way more than an ordinary sound card: Turtle Beach 56K. It was mailed from Canada across the Atlantics. Lost without a trace...

[cedrik]

the biggest (as volume and dissapointment not value) failure was few month ago when i bought around 15 CRT vintage monitors (1980-1990) and some old computers just to find out at home they were all terminals (IBM , Ampex, and other brands) ... and the lot also included some IBM model M keyboards all with a big cut on one side and few cm missing .. they are almost all in working condition, but pretty useless...

[Mixeur]

My greatest failure was 11 years ago, and can be found somewhere in this forum.
More than 200€ of not so common chips (especially now) lost by DHL or never really sent, I don't know, it has never been really clear to me, even after deep investigations with DHL...

[isa-d]

Spent more of $100 for an arcade board with a white MOS 6502 but .... it was a 6530

[CPUShack]

I've bought a fair number of DIPs/PGAs that turned out to be LCCs or LGAs lol (dang old foam and salt water air)

[Vegeta]

I bought a bunch of chips for ~ $800 and got nothing

[CPUShack]

[xsecret]

[Libkin]

I didn’t pay enough attention to security. And >500 of CPUs from my collection were stolen. I didn’t recover yet. And now, when I have 3 kids (my second daughter was born on Saturday), I have very different priorities of how I need to spend money and time.

[cvandijk]

[Vegeta]