"scrap" auction...

Sridhar Ayengar ploopster at gmail.com
Mon Oct 13 15:26:02 CDT 2008


Bill Sudbrink wrote:
> Richard wrote:
>> "Bill Sudbrink" <wh.sudbrink at verizon.net>  writes:
>>
>>> Anybody recognize the board in this lot:
>>>
>>> [ebay item #] 120314777595
>>>
>>> transputer maybe?
>> I've never seen any transputer packaging that looks like that.
> 
> That was just a wild-ass guess on my part.  Very unusual, heat
> sinked chips in a 6 x 7 grid, custom wired on the back.  I just
> noticed the Fairchild glyph on the tops of the heat sinks.  In
> the photos where you can read the numbers on the chips, each one
> has a different set of numbers.

I does look like an IBM package.  If it does contain Fairchild devices 
on it, it would still be feasible, since IBM used to buy a lot of parts 
from Fairchild.

Peace...  Sridhar



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