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Re: ZIP chip these days
- Subject: Re: ZIP chip these days
- From: PZ <skierpaul@yahoo.com>
- Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 11:32:48 -0700 (PDT)
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On May 22, 10:36 pm, David Chiu <n...@nowhere.org> wrote:
> Bill Buckels wrote:
> > I am watching an ebay auction for a zip chip 8000 //e without any manuals or
> > packaging or anything... it's already up to $110.99 USD and it's not over
> > for another 16 hours or so. I am grateful for mine and don't plan on parting
> > with it, but interested to see what they sell for these days...
>
> I've only had a couple of zip chips over the years, but every one of
> them were epoxy'ed in with a couple of RAM chips exposed on the bottom.
> The pics used in the auction doesn't look like the ones I have had before.
Yes, there were two versions. The 4000/8000 and the II 4mhz/8mhz. One
had the sram visible on the bottom, and the other one didn't. One
version was more prone to failures as well, but I can't remember which
was which.
- Paul