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A bunch of 68000 CPU's and other chips!

Posted by: JT737 on 2024-11-08 06:28:33 So the school that I work at is in the processes of cleaning the closets out of one of the STEM labs, and they have a mother-load of old DIP chips that they are going to throw out. Including in this lot were two trays of Motorola 68000 CPU's! So of course I had to grab them: I also grabbed a tray of 8085's and another tray of 8086's; I'm hoping to find a few trays of 6502's as well. Their are trays and trays of chips to be gone through still!

Posted by: olePigeon on 2024-11-08 08:13:26 Holy cow. Nice find.

Posted by: RepairManiac on 2024-11-08 08:55:15 Awesome save!!!👏👏

Posted by: chiptripper on 2024-11-08 12:49:41 Very nice score!

Posted by: CC_333 on 2024-11-08 19:43:21 What are you going to do with all those 68000s? Schools seem to have some rather neat little remnants lurking around in their storage closets and such. Just gotta be in the right place at the right time and know the right people when they decide to clean it out. Speaking of... when the Community College I went to was getting ready to move to a new campus about 12 years ago, they had to clean out 20+ years of stuff from the computer lab storage areas. It was mainly software and documentation, but there were some interesting hardware finds too (among the neater of which was a boxed PowerCD (missing its power brick, of course)). The majority of the really good stuff, however, got transferred to the main campus and either recycled or surplussed (there was a 9600 or 8600 and a B&W G3, among other interesting things). Anyway, the aide gave me the opportunity to pick up most of the other stuff because otherwise it was going to be thrown out, and all these years later, I still haven't quite figured out what to do with any of it.... c

Posted by: JT737 on 2024-11-09 08:38:30 @CC_333 - I will probably sell some of the chips here, as I definitely don't need all of them. After that, I'm not entirely sure what I'm going to do with them. I should probably ask @ZaneKaminski if he might be interested in these, now that I think of it. I am one of the beta testers for his Macintosh SE WarpSE accelerator; maybe we might want to make a version of the accelerator that runs with this version of the 68000? Who knows!

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