STORKEL@RICE.BITNET (Scott Storkel) (05/13/89)
As I recall, it is possible to get Motorola to send you free or nearly free chips. The catch is you probably have to be affiliated with an educational institution and you have to sign in blood that you aren't going to sell them. The chips have surface defects which means they don't look good, but they still work. They aren't going to give you a 96Mhz 68030, but I would think you could get them to send you a 16Mhz 68851. I used to have the address of the person to contact, but I've lost it. Try talking to someone in the E.E. department at your favorite university. Scott Storkel Macintosh Software Development Rice University
roy@bonnie.ics.uci.edu (John M.A. Roy) (05/15/89)
In article <1047STORKEL@RICE>, STORKEL@RICE (Scott Storkel) writes: | |As I recall, it is possible to get Motorola to send you free or nearly free |chips. The catch is you probably have to be affiliated with an educational |institution and you have to sign in blood that you aren't going to sell them. |The chips have surface defects which means they don't look good, but they still |work. They aren't going to give you a 96Mhz 68030, but I would think you could |get them to send you a 16Mhz 68851. I used to have the address of the person to |contact, but I've lost it. Try talking to someone in the E.E. department at |your favorite university. If anybody does find that address, could you please post it. It would be really nice to get something for free. Especially since Apple has given up on the 68020. Thanks in advance, John M.A. Roy (714) 856-5039 ICS Dept., Univ. Calif., Irvine CA 92714 Internet: roy@ics.uci.edu
peter@aucs.UUCP (Peter Steele) (05/15/89)
> As I recall, it is possible to get Motorola to send you free or nearly free > chips. The catch is you probably have to be affiliated with an educational > institution and you have to sign in blood that you aren't going to sell them. If anyone knows the address to which to direct a request for these freebie chips, please post it to this group (or email me directly). Thanx. -- Peter Steele, Microcomputer Applications Analyst Acadia University, Wolfville, NS, Canada B0P1X0 (902)542-2201x121 UUCP: {uunet|watmath|utai|garfield}!dalcs!aucs!Peter BITNET: Peter@Acadia Internet: Peter%Acadia.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU