[Coco] 6809EP - Worth it?

[jdaggett at gate.net]

Andrew

If they are 6809EP then they are the 1MHz parts and at $6 a pop I would say that is a bit 
pricy. 

I still have one or two rails of MC68B09EPs floating around here i bought off of EBAY about 6 
yrs ago at $2 per unit. 

james 

On 18 Jan 2010 at 17:51, Andrew wrote:

> All,
> 
> I was browsing around a favorite local electronics surplus haunt of 
> mine, and found that they had a cache of MC6809EP processors, in tubes 
> of 5 or 6. The condition of the parts looked NOS; but other than that, 
> unknown.
> 
> I asked how much each, they told me $6.00 per chip. Are these of 
> interest to the CoCo community? Would they work in say a CoCo 1 or 2? Or 
> are they for a more generalized 6809 system? They also had tubes of the 
> 6821 (PIA), but I didn't ask the price.
> 
> Then again, they quoted out cost per chip on tubes of ULN2803A @ $2.00 
> each (with a "price break" after 1000 to $1.50 each); looking that part 
> up online (high-power darlington array IC - 18 pin PDIP) I could find 
> them for under a buck each.
> 
> I guess what I am saying is that I think their pricing is suspect on 
> certain things, just like all surplus dealers...
> 
> What do you guys think?
> 
> -- Andrew L. Ayers, Glendale, Arizona
> 
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