Hi all,
 
does anyone know a reliable source for a WD2793 floppy controller ic, I 
have been looking on ebay and am also concerned that many of the TMS2793 
look suspicious, too many suppliers with identically printed/date coded 
chips. I can believe that there is a large stash of these parts in China.
the whole fake IC this is very frustrating, I buy from reputable suppliers 
where possible but many of these chips are obsolete/not stocked.
 
wrt 20mhz Z80 CPU , Mouser has 119 DIP's on order with an estimated 
delivery of 3/10/2014 for those who can wait
 
http://uk.mouser.com/Search/Refine.aspx?Keyword=z84c0020
 
regards
 
David Fry
On Sunday, June 29, 2014 3:44:02 AM UTC+1, curt mayer wrote:

> I've got a 8088 cpu blank, and a z80 cpu populated.   I bought a 10 chip 
> lot of z84c0002pec's from ebay, and was a bit horrified when I got them to 
> find 
> that they smelled of new paint.  identical fronts, but the backs showed 
> different countries (indonesia and phillipines), all with different mold 
> imprints.
>
> obviously shenanigans. 
>
> so, I wired up a 20mhz test rig for the z80's, using a derivative of 
> dunfield's no-ram monitor (i disassembled it and added a lot more code), 
> and not a one tested
> out at 20 mhz.  one limped at 16, 2 ran at 12, and the rest were good at 
> 8.  all tested as cmos: the out (C),F instruction sends FF, the nmos sends 
> 00.
>
> for 15 bucks, I got a bunch of mildly useful z80s of unknown actual 
> characteristics.
>
> anyhow, now i want to build the 8088 board with V20's - NEC has a part 
> number for dip-40's at 16mhz.  70108hcz-16.  lots of them available on ebay 
> from china.
>
> any experiences here before I become the ebay counterfeit chip crash test 
> dummy?
>
> --curt
>

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