Jimhearne Posted December 9, 2022 Share Posted December 9, 2022 https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/175524278894 Genuine ? The picture looks very similar to Stuarts. I've ordered one to find out. Ebay says it's a supplier i have bought from before though i can't remember what. Jim 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart Posted December 9, 2022 Share Posted December 9, 2022 I've had various items from this seller coming up in my searches recently, usually with a title prefix "Inquire price", and all wanting £480 postage ... ;-/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimhearne Posted December 10, 2022 Author Share Posted December 10, 2022 They changed the price to £8.39 after i asked. Fingers crossed it's real. Jim 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+dhe Posted December 11, 2022 Share Posted December 11, 2022 I'm sure, it's a real chip! 😃 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimhearne Posted December 13, 2022 Author Share Posted December 13, 2022 I guess that was too good to be true, just had the following message: Dear buyer I am so sorry to bother you and please forgive me, thanks so much. we only have 5pc in stock of this item. Our warehouse workers found that the outer packing of the item you ordered was damp when they checked the warehouse. Our engineers found that the item was damp and It was in very bad condition.We can't send a faulty item to you. Dear buyer, our warehouse worker says that there will be arrivals for this item in about 7-8 weeks. As soon as they arrive,we will contact you immediately. Is that ok we give your mony now? If you have any question or need any help, please contact me directly. I am sure all problems can be resolved by our cooperation. Please don't open cases or leave any neutral or negative feedback which has very bad impact to my store. We will give you a big discount for the future business. If you need any other item,please tell me the exact MODEL you want and we will give you best price. I asked why the picture on the auction was not of the real item. I also asked them for a picture of the damaged chips as maybe i could refurbish them, i bet they don't send one. I've had something very similar to this before. Jim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimhearne Posted December 13, 2022 Author Share Posted December 13, 2022 As expected: dear buyer thanks for your letter i am relly sorry this items have been sent to original factory because we can't sell bad items to buyer and we need to solve the problem at the first time so if it is ok for me to give your mony? As soon as they arrive,we will contact you immediately. kind regards I looked back in my emails and this company did almost exactly the same thing when i tried to by some TMX9909NL chips from them. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimhearne Posted December 13, 2022 Author Share Posted December 13, 2022 As expected: dear buyer thanks for your letter i am relly sorry this items have been sent to original factory because we can't sell bad items to buyer and we need to solve the problem at the first time so if it is ok for me to give your mony? As soon as they arrive,we will contact you immediately. kind regards I looked back in my emails and this company did almost exactly the same thing in 2020 when i tried to buy some TMX9909NL chips from them. Not sure how doing this benefits them if they just end up giving a refund. Maybe shows a demand for the parts and then they go and make fakes of them. Jim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Ksarul Posted December 14, 2022 Share Posted December 14, 2022 18 hours ago, Jimhearne said: As expected: dear buyer thanks for your letter i am relly sorry this items have been sent to original factory because we can't sell bad items to buyer and we need to solve the problem at the first time so if it is ok for me to give your mony? As soon as they arrive,we will contact you immediately. kind regards I looked back in my emails and this company did almost exactly the same thing in 2020 when i tried to buy some TMX9909NL chips from them. Not sure how doing this benefits them if they just end up giving a refund. Maybe shows a demand for the parts and then they go and make fakes of them. Jim I thought this sounded familiar too--they did the same thing to me in 2020 with the TMX9909s I tried to order from them. I think they've had so many negative responses from the US that they refuse to ship here now. . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimhearne Posted December 14, 2022 Author Share Posted December 14, 2022 And the UK then, if so why don't they just exclude UK and US instead of all the messing about. They had already sent me a tracking number before they told me the chips were damaged, not sure how that works. At the listing is still up. I know some Chinese people , i wonder what would happen if they ordered one. Jim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+acadiel Posted December 14, 2022 Share Posted December 14, 2022 10 hours ago, Ksarul said: I thought this sounded familiar too--they did the same thing to me in 2020 with the TMX9909s I tried to order from them. I think they've had so many negative responses from the US that they refuse to ship here now. . . Yeah, I see zero items by them. I have to go to the UK site to see them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Ksarul Posted December 14, 2022 Share Posted December 14, 2022 11 hours ago, Jimhearne said: And the UK then, if so why don't they just exclude UK and US instead of all the messing about. They had already sent me a tracking number before they told me the chips were damaged, not sure how that works. At the listing is still up. I know some Chinese people , i wonder what would happen if they ordered one. Jim Yeah, they sent tracking on the 9909s too--and when the tracking number data stayed in the originating city for almost a month, I asked what what was up. That was when they cancelled and gave a refund with the "damaged item excuse." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimhearne Posted May 5, 2023 Author Share Posted May 5, 2023 (edited) This seller has some TMS99110 in Poland. https://www.ebay.co.uk/str/tvsatelectronic I have bought from this seller before (not TI chips) and they were good chips. Shame it's a stock picture but i took a chance on a couple. Jim Edited May 5, 2023 by Jimhearne 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+FarmerPotato Posted May 5, 2023 Share Posted May 5, 2023 6 hours ago, Jimhearne said: This seller has some TMS99110 in Poland. https://www.ebay.co.uk/str/tvsatelectronic I have bought from this seller before (not TI chips) and they were good chips. Shame it's a stock picture but i took a chance on a couple. Jim Wow, I'm going to order some. Searched for "Texas Instruments" --the seller has much, much more good stuff. Though probably available elsewhere, it is lovely to browse. I found the TMS38010 and TMS38020, TMP370 and TMS34076. The TMS38010 is what I'm calling "the last 9900". Built for their Token Ring chipset, it has a 9900 instruction set and 2.75K onboard RAM. I think Apple even used it in their rare TokenTalk card. Somewhere there is a Macintosh that loads a device driver, written by TI, for its 9900 coprocessor. All the above were part of the Wally Rhines initiative to reset TI's Microprocessor division in 1983 or so. (Read: kill the 9900, surrender the 8-bit and 16-bit markets.) Which yielded the 32-bit TMS320 DSP (TI's cash-cow for decades) and 32-bit TMS340 GPU. (which inspired the Win32 GDI.) The TMS360 vanished. A TMS370 incorporated the 7000 core. The TMS34076 is like 3X BT476, a VGA color palette, but for 24-bit color. The TMS380 did alright and incorporated the 16-bit 9900 one last time. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+FarmerPotato Posted May 5, 2023 Share Posted May 5, 2023 @jbdigriz The seller has 74S181 big slice processor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+FarmerPotato Posted May 5, 2023 Share Posted May 5, 2023 @Jimhearne On TVSAT website, I see a TMP99000. This is the CPU in my 990/10A board. Do you have that chip? Sad to think that a 990/10A might have been scrapped to yield that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimhearne Posted May 5, 2023 Author Share Posted May 5, 2023 I only have the one in in my 990/10A like you. Jim 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbdigriz Posted May 7, 2023 Share Posted May 7, 2023 On 5/5/2023 at 5:05 AM, Jimhearne said: This seller has some TMS99110 in Poland. https://www.ebay.co.uk/str/tvsatelectronic I have bought from this seller before (not TI chips) and they were good chips. Shame it's a stock picture but i took a chance on a couple. Jim All gone now. <snif> :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbdigriz Posted May 7, 2023 Share Posted May 7, 2023 (edited) On 5/5/2023 at 12:00 PM, FarmerPotato said: @jbdigriz The seller has 74S181 big slice processor. I see them. Also has AM29203's, but no 74S481. The replacement I mentioned in another thread for the '181 looks interesting since it likely could operate with a significantly faster clock than the 74181. Which has some possibilities. Edited May 7, 2023 by jbdigriz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbdigriz Posted May 7, 2023 Share Posted May 7, 2023 (edited) On 5/5/2023 at 11:45 AM, FarmerPotato said: The TMS380 did alright and incorporated the 16-bit 9900 one last time. Somewhere around here I think I have a TMS380-based ISA TR adapter. I should dig it out and take a look. Edited May 7, 2023 by jbdigriz 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+FarmerPotato Posted May 8, 2023 Share Posted May 8, 2023 On 5/6/2023 at 9:43 PM, jbdigriz said: I see them. Also has AM29203's, but no 74S481. The replacement I mentioned in another thread for the '181 looks interesting since it likely could operate with a significantly faster clock than the 74181. Which has some possibilities. Oops, 74S481 is the hot one. The TMP99000 was gone when I looked again. So are the TMS99110s, but that might be because we bought all of the supply. 🙂 I bought 2 of them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+FarmerPotato Posted May 8, 2023 Share Posted May 8, 2023 On 5/6/2023 at 9:54 PM, jbdigriz said: Somewhere around here I think I have a TMS380-based ISA TR adapter. I should dig it out and take a look. Aaand in my haste to order the TMS99110, I threw a bunch of interesting chips in my cart. I dunno what is a TMS375 but I got one of the lots for $6. All I can find is an aliexpress programmer for 370 series that seems to be automotive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OLD CS1 Posted May 8, 2023 Share Posted May 8, 2023 4 hours ago, FarmerPotato said: Aaand in my haste to order the TMS99110, I threw a bunch of interesting chips in my cart. I dunno what is a TMS375 but I got one of the lots for $6. All I can find is an aliexpress programmer for 370 series that seems to be automotive. I recall seeing a TI chip at the heart several RAID controllers I used to run, and I think they were the 370 family. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+FarmerPotato Posted May 8, 2023 Share Posted May 8, 2023 On 5/5/2023 at 10:45 AM, FarmerPotato said: A TMS370 incorporated the 7000 core Duh. I did know what it was, last Friday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimhearne Posted May 19, 2023 Author Share Posted May 19, 2023 Anybody received chips from Poland yet ? Jim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+FarmerPotato Posted May 22, 2023 Share Posted May 22, 2023 On 5/19/2023 at 6:41 AM, Jimhearne said: Anybody received chips from Poland yet ? Jim Mine has an estimate of May 27 delivery to US. Last update May 13, Warsaw. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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