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fisheye46
Joined: 17 Mar 2005
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 Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2005 1:48 am Post subject: Who made this giant CPU? |
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I have 4 of these white ceremic cpu's size is 6" x 6" x 1/2" it weighs 1lb 9oz's
i was told by a cpu gold scrapper that theres over 1oz of gold in 1 cpu.there is no name just a number on the front and back its C5035716 i think its a water cooled IBM cpu.but what year and model IBM did this come from.
i would be willing to sell all 4 CPU's ill take the best offer.
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CPUShack
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metalmaker
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For information on this chip try the guy at the link below. He has many similar items. Written description at the bottom of this link sounds like yours.
http://www.chips.5u.com/idxmcm.html
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fisheye46
Joined: 17 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2005 2:27 pm Post subject: Giant IBM chips |
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| ok,i found out what these chips are,they are IBM 390E TCM's and they do have over 1 oz of gold in them,the backplane that they plugged into the pins are worth $300 a lb. |
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skold
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| Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2005 5:27 pm Post subject: |
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$10?  |
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