Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!beartrk!ceilidh!dnichols From: dnichols@ceilidh.beartrack.com (DoN Nichols) Newsgroups: comp.sys.m68k Subject: Re: 680x0 Price/Performance... Message-ID: <1991Jun15.010255.20390@ceilidh.beartrack.com> Date: 15 Jun 91 01:02:55 GMT References: <1991Jun11.203109.10181@menudo.uh.edu> Organization: D and D Data, Vienna, VA. Lines: 31 In article <1991Jun11.203109.10181@menudo.uh.edu> pink@JUDY.UH.EDU writes: > [ ... ] > >I'm looking to purchase 10-16 processors, and don't care whether its >a 68000, 68010, 68020 etc.. What's important is the price/performance >ratio. (I'd rather get at 33MHz 68000 than a 12.5MHz 68020...) > >I've checked Jameco and JDR Microdevices-- I'm sure there are better >deals out there. I don't know the Housto area, but here (near Washington D.C.) there are frequent hamfests at which dealers in used chips appear with 10MHZ 68000 chips in the $10.00 range (and some 68010' at that price). Other chips are similar in price savings. If you don't know where to find a hamfest, look in your yellow pages for radio dealers who specialize in Ham Radio, and someone there can tell you. Price to get in is typically $5.00, and you can spend all day walking around finding components which you didn't remember that you would need for your project (wirewrap cards - strip off the old wiring yourself and save a bundle), bypass capacitors, random logic chips, sockets, whatever. Good Luck DoN. -- Donald Nichols (DoN.) | Voice (Days): (703) 664-1585 D&D Data | Voice (Eves): (703) 938-4564 Disclaimer: from here - None | Email: --- Black Holes are where God is dividing by zero ---