speaking of custom chips, there was another article about this topic, regarding the eb@y auctions from china. Wondering of anyone else saw this. That the cause of the fake parts, which has been a hot topic for many years, is the result of the mistaken identification of components. Since the wearing and fading of the ink of the part# after 35+yrs while sitting in warehouses, and also from just cleaning the parts. Most of the parts are marked correctly,and they apparently used fake datecodes to distinguish the re-stamped parts. Presumably they acquired all of these computers from the sales during liquidation or simply just e-waste shipped overseas. Some of the part suppliers in the article, who buy these parts by the thousands directly from these sellers iso eb@y, vouch for theses sources. article is on pg.16 https://issuu.com/kilobytemagazine/docs/kilobytemagazine2017-1 you can also download the pdf directly from them without needing an acct from that other website https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2TI_Wdty1HdejVCNEhvQjRtWFU/view Dan