You know you are a real chip collector when...

Cpuswe · Last edited by Cpuswe on Sun Jun 24, 2007 11:59 pm; edited 4 times in total

You know you are a real chip collector when...

* Paying a lot of money for what other consider scrap

* spending many years of searching through eBay ads

* Getting your hands cut when digging through old pc junk

* Develop cancer from heat-gun fumes trying to remove chips from PCB boards

* Buy a chip and then discover in the fine print that the seller only uses DHL express shipping, where you end upp paying $300 for a $10 chip. (You got it fast and safe though)

* Getting ripped off on that fake chip you paid an arm and a leg for where the seller sits half way round the world laughing

* Buying a box of gold scrap chips discovering that I HAD THEM ALL and no ES what so ever.

* Paying $$$ for a chip on ebay and then the comes the standard frassl line here at the forum, "i have truckload of these, how many you want?"

* Keeping two full time employees running at USPS just with your shipping fees.

* Getting a valuable chip get lost in the mail

* Having to get up at 3:00 AM just to make a "sniping" bid on that crazy-rare chip which is located in a timezone far away from you.

* Getting a valuable chip get crushed in the mail

* Paying more money

* Receiving snotty e-mails stating "This auction is for US residents only! Ha ha ha!" when you finally found the item of your dreams and asks for shipping outside US (mostly applies to non-US collectors)

* You buy a chip and when you recieve it you find that you already have it!

* You get outbid by 1$ on eBay

* Reading those one-time-chance sell/group-buy thread here at cpu-world three minutes after it where posted, and STILL miss out on the buy of your life

* ...then spending valuable worktime/spare time visiting the forum every other minute afraid to miss another sell/group-buy thread

* you can recognize and id a chip across a room.

* getting a chip with packing tape on the top.. as you try to remove the tape so you pull off half the printin gon the chip

* spending hours scanning your chip collection

* plugging a chip into a board to test and letting the smoke out.

* trying to find a better come back line to the quizzical looks you get when you mention that you collect old chips.

* finding a rare chip on ebay going for a few dollars, then the seller looks through you feedback and sees you paid $$$$$$ for chips in the past - then suddenly the cheap chip you won at auction "is lost".

* getting high off the different solvents and cleaners to try and clean your chips.

* removing the DNA that seems to accompany some packaging ( hair eeeww ) old chips ( you know that dust that collects in heatsinks is more than dust ! )

* you start to be able to recognise chips from their sspecs alone.

* develop strange urges to boil your cpu to remove the heatsink. (cpu-world special)

* Tried unbending a pin on the most perfect CPU... then it breaks by accident.

* -Ya ever stepped on a 40pin DIP, cursed, stepped again, and landed on another.

Cpuswe · Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2006 1:34 pm Post subject:

tlccomp · Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2006 1:39 pm Post subject:

Look what you started Smile

Cpuswe · Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2006 1:46 pm Post subject:

If you just could keep your boring, common chips for your self this would never happened. Wink

JAC · Joined: 24 Jul 2005 Posts: 3469

hehehe

wepwawet · Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2006 2:08 pm Post subject:

great, just great!

Thanks for all those true statements!

my addition (real life experience:-):

... you dream about yourself at a junk yard finding a bunch of white Intel DIPs.

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

So, I'm a real collector !

But i would never pay for a cpu with too much shipping, even if I won it on Ebay. I would prefer to have a negative feedback...

gshv · Joined: 01 Feb 2003 Posts: 7898 Location: Fairfax, VA USA

I guess the last stage of chip collecting is when you start talking to your chips...

... No, I haven't reached it yet.

Gennadiy

Marcin · Joined: 02 Jan 2005 Posts: 8519 Location: Poland

CPUShack · Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2006 3:06 pm Post subject:

-Ya ever stepped on a 40pin DIP, cursed, stepped again, and landed on another.

chipcollector · Joined: 28 Sep 2004 Posts: 1681 Location: New England

-Tried unbending a pin on the most perfect CPU... then it breaks by accident.

CPUShack · Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2006 6:30 pm Post subject:

oh damn that sucks, been there done that

gshv · Joined: 01 Feb 2003 Posts: 7898 Location: Fairfax, VA USA

FDIV · Joined: 12 Mar 2006 Posts: 740 Location: Ohio, USA

*Buying a "pentium 66" or "50" which turns out to be a 486 but "what are you upset about?"

*Buying ebays owner a yact with your listing fees

*meeting a new user who has better chips than you have ever managed to get that just had lying around Wink

*And finaly finding that one of a kind and the rush that keeps us coming back Very Happy

*Trying to explain to your wife how the letters E and S are worth more money then that dress she wants to buy.

P.S.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who wonders what the postman thinks. I hope the feds don't come after me for all my buys from china. They probably think I'm a commie.

wepwawet · Posted: Sat Jun 17, 2006 2:05 am Post subject:

- when someone reads this by chance and has no idea why we are making fun about so many "simply true" statements.

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