You might want to try targeting schools and colleges
as chip supplies. My college, just dumped about 60 or
so 486's into one of the hallways of the computer lab,
presumably for scrap. Unfortunately, I no longer
reside there, but I imagine this is probably common in
a lot of schools. I believe the chips were
486SX-33's, but I can't remember.
--- Cary O'Brien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > I need to find up to twenty Intel 486DX2-66's for
> an embedded system. It
> > seems that Advantech only sells the PCA-6145
> preloaded with the
> > AMD586-133. I was surprised that the local PC
> retailers looked at me so
> > strangly when I asked if they had any 486 chips,
> but I suppose it has
> > been a while since I have actually bought one of
> those. Are the 486
> > chips still being made?
> >
>
> Jameco may be a possibility. Actually they have
> them. Search
> for 486.
>
> Actually, this brings up a very important problem.
> Very often
> embedded systems are put together with commodity
> components to keep
> cost low, but as the months roll by, those exact
> commodity components
> may no longer be available. Or they may cease to be
> cheap I.E things
> like dumb ne-2000 compatible ISA ethernet cards.
> OEM manufacturers
> are usualy alerted to this by chip manufactures --
> the chip mfgrs will
> announce well ahead of time that a chip is going out
> of production, but
> the board mfgr may not pass this along.
>
> -- cary
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