Ian King wrote:
  According to the Intersil website, you can buy them
direct
 for US$108.10 per thousand. 
You misinterpreted that.  It's $108.10 *each* in quantity 1000.
  Now what would I do with a thousand 8-bit
microprocessors....? 
I'd suggest SETI at home or Folding at home, if you weren't in any hurry,
except that they don't have open-source clients that could be ported to
the 1802.