8008 chips

John Honniball coredump at gifford.co.uk
Mon Dec 15 19:04:05 CST 2008


Chuck Guzis wrote:
> Speaking of which, I discovered that I've got a bunch of InMOS 16Kx1 
> static RAMs (IMS1400S55) in gold-capped ceramic packages.  Are they 
> used in any vintage equipment or are they better used as fodder for 
> the scrappers?

ISTR a Sun 3-something that used those SRAMs in some way.  Cache,
maybe?  Possibly a Sun 3-110?  The ones I saw weren't gold-capped
ceramic parts, though, just ordinary plastic DIPs.

I have an Oric Atmos fitted with INMOS 2600 DRAMs -- "support your
local chip shop" as the T-shirt used to say!

The RAM:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/anachrocomputer/2670713527/

The whole PCB:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/anachrocomputer/2671535624/

The keyboard:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/anachrocomputer/2671535896/

-- 
John Honniball
coredump at gifford.co.uk



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