I have thousands of NOS chips here that i hope to finish going through. I have no idea how many bus transceivers are in there. These were intended for projects I don't know if I'll ever get around to.
There are a lot of NOS out there at a variety of prices. The common 74xx are mostly there and fairly cheap. I have several thousand ECLs I have little use for, and they are getting harder to find. As far as the DEC chips go, I figured if I ever ran out I would pull them off of boards that I have a lots of extras. It's been years since I've looked at the prints, but I should be able to find some DEC transceivers on boards like DZ11, MS11, MSV11, M3106, M3107, various omnibus boards etc. I know is sounds terrible, but I can cut the fingers off, sell the board for the chips, and make some room which i desperately need. Paul On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 10:12 AM, Noel Chiappa <j...@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> wrote: > > From: Philipp Hachtmann > > > that one posting sounded a lot like that, sorry. > > OK. > > > Do you have a source where there are still 30k chips sitting and > > waiting? > > It was ~30K a couple of months ago. I checked about a week ago, and it was > down to ~26K (IIRC). > > Although, like I said, I doubt they have all 26K in stock themselves; > based on > comments they made when we bought a large group, I think that's the total > number available to them across a number of suppliers, in a network which > shares inventory information. > > Noel >