[Coco] OT: Gold Ceramic chip (circa 1973)

[Andrew]

An old shift register is one thing - but an old CPU is another beast; to 
a collector, it could be worth a bit. For instance:

http://www.classiccmp.org/pipermail/cctalk/2001-November/186351.html

...in approx 2001, $300.00 - possibly more, maybe less today.

As that thread says - supply and demand. I know that 8008s aren't 
exactly falling out of the sky (and if you had a 4004 - wooboy!).

I recently purchased off of Ebay (buy have yet to receive it) an old 386 
motherboard (long story short - I'm wanting to build a DOS machine 
exclusively for running old graphics demos and games locked to certain 
CPU speeds - needless to say, I need to find various other EISA boards; 
thankfully I have more than a few - if I didn't throw them away!).

Anyhow - I got it for a steal of around $30.00; if you check on Ebay for 
386 mobos, you'll see that doesn't happen often. For some reason, many 
386 parts (mainly motherboards) are climbing in price rapidly. I'm 
really surprised someone in China isn't making a killing on Ebay raiding 
those "electronic scavenging dumps" for parts (then again, 386 parts 
might be at the bottom).

I'd keep your 8008, unless you really need the money. I'd expect its 
value to continue to climb. Plus, it isn't a bad chip to look at.

:)

-- Andrew L. Ayers, Glendale, Arizona

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> Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 21:46:26 -0800
> From: "Stephen H. Fischer" <SFischer1 at Mindspring.com>
> Subject: Re: [Coco] OT: Gold Ceramic chip (circa 1973)
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> Hi,
> 
> What would an Intel 8008 CPU go for? I have one.
> 
> Marked "G 8008", no Intel logo or other markings.
> 
> It also has the "thin 30 to 60 micro inches of gold plated over nickel" on 
> top.
> 
> SHF