Jinx <joecolquitt <at> clear.net.nz> writes:

> Someone got busted in Auckland a few years ago selling RAM chips
> that were actually empty.

There used to be motherboards with 'cache' chips which were empty. You had to
look up the part numbers to find out. These were synchronous cache 'chips' gull
wing smd, large, soldered near the cpu.

I also got fake LM386 (oscillates at about 8 MHz in standard circuit) and fake
TDA2030 (oscillates at ~3 MHz).

Peter P.


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