So I stumbled upon the best yard sale of my life.
I scored a rare Lear Siegler ADM-3A terminal, two Shugart floppy drives, and hundreds of eproms for $50. The terminal needed only minor repairs and sprang to life but the keyboard was fragile and iffy. I also picked up a complete Amiga 1000 system with monitor, floppy, a ton of software, etc, for $300, in original boxes.
The Amiga needed repairs, both CIA's were dead. I love the history of the A1000 but when I got my first Amiga, the 1000 was already old news and had no easy hard drive options. I had many 500's, 1200's and 3000's though. I repaired and then sold the Amiga, but only at a very slight profit.
After thinking REALLY deep to decide if I really had the room, courage, and money to build up a real IMSAI computer, I decided to sell most of that stuff off to someone who really wanted it and use an IMSAI simulator . I sold the terminal, the drives, and all of the purple ceramic eproms with gold pins.
I made a bunch of money to put back into the hobby and impressed my wife with my electronics picking skills! Truly a once in a lifetime find.
BUT, now I have approximately 250 of the 2716 eproms left. These are either white ceramic, some with gold pins, but mostly just basic ceramic case with plain pins.
I'm building an 8 bit computer from scratch so I can certainly use perhaps um 4 or 5 of these, but to do with 250 of them?
I thought it might be fun to put 32 of them on a board to get 64k of read only memory. I have no idea what I would put in 64k of eprom space.
Or, maybe use 4 or 8 of them together to make cartridges for my 8 bit computer project?
Right now I only need enough for basic which would easily fit in 2k.
Just wondered if anyone had any creative ideas for what i could do with 250 2716's?