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Re:Examining a vintage RAM chip, I find a counterfeit with a... by djsumdog on Monday August 21, 2017 @12:51PM (#15065853)
Maybe this was labeled a decade+ ago and the ebayer is just some salvager going through a warehouse. There's no way someone would go through that effort today, with neither chip being that expensive.
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Re:Examining a vintage RAM chip, I find a counterfeit with a... by cat199 on Monday August 21, 2017 @02:02PM (#15066338)
probably quite the opposite: e-waste disposal companies inventorying useless ICs for pin count vs barely useful ones and relabeling.. spend .01c to get .05c times 1 bazillion and you might actually make some money
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