IC collecting

[Bill Sudbrink]

Gordon J. C. Pearce wrote
>
> On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 11:44 -0400, Barber, Brennan wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I cam across your posting and wanted to see if you also collected IC's?
> > Finding other collectors is a rarity for me so I thought I would shoot
> > you and e-mail. I collect clones (russian, eastern block, etc.), Intel
> > engineering samples and any IBM cpus.
>
> I prefer to keep the ICs in the boards ;-)
>

Seconded.  Chip collectors are to computer collectors like a hypothetical
"nut and bolt" collector would be to a vintage car collector.  Could you
imagine: "I don't have room for a model T Ford so I took it apart and made
this great display of the nuts and bolts.  I threw the rest of the junk
away.  It was all dirty.  Look at my collection.  They're sorted by
diameter,
thread pitch, Phillips/flat head..."