Quick question on IC chips

**metal gypsy** · 08-13-2011, 06:30 PM

I pulled all of these from mother-boards and pci-boards. The 3 white in upper left came from a 76' Thomas organ. These chips came out of "removable"sockets.
trying to research these as well........flea-bay has quite a few, most are new, prices vary.

**wdaddy** · 08-13-2011, 11:08 PM

Originally Posted by metal gypsy

I pulled all of these from mother-boards and pci-boards. The 3 white in upper left came from a 76' Thomas organ. These chips came out of "removable"sockets.
trying to research these as well

Most of these are bios chips. These are the first thing a computer reads as it boots. The bios contains the boot strap program that gets the computer going. No real value in these chips other then the gold content. Around $6 / lb, but i would just leave them in and sell the whole board... I guess it's up to the time you have.