Fw: Deck of IBM PLAYING CARDS GOES FOR $325

[woodelf]

William Donzelli wrote:

>I just found a whole box of new TI high rel gold surface mount TTL
>(something boring like a latch), still sealed. It is actually worth a
>pretty good sum, being that the mil spec gold surface mount packages are
>very hard to find. If they were plain old 74xx TTL, they would be worth 17
>cents a pound.
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Well I need a FEW pounds of  TTL  ...  I'll  give you a  $10.00  for  
the  7412's
and 7414's and  7470's. Now if I could get the sockets and PCB boards 
made just as cheep.
Oh yah better throw in a few 7438's too.

>William Donzelli
>aw288 at osfn.org
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7412   OC 3 input nands
7414    Hex Schmitt trigger
7470    Gated J/K F/F
7438    OC 2 input nand buffer

Well I will not need a heat in my apartment next year -- just power up a 
few lb's of ttl.
Are they suppose to glow red  .... :)
And what else do you have for 17 cents a lb ...
Reads the fine print ... offer good only untill Dec 31, 1972
Blah 
The chips I picked are set of chips that a whole computer control and 
data path could be constructed
from. Has anybody made a computer with such a small range of components? 
( I know of the Apollo
guideance computer already)