[Dylanear]

I went searching the web for my various options to replace an old, dead, DS1286 and found there are plenty on ebay right now, supposedly new? New old stock? I have to wonder how old? But even as just starting points for modding, they still have value to me dead. So buying 5 of them for about $24 US seems like a bargain. Granted they say it could be several months before they show up from China. 

Anyone bought any of these? Anyone noticed them for sale on ebay? Seems in years past there were none, at least none listed as new on ebay? What's the deal? Are these knock off copies that just get the Dallas markings? Or old stock? There's no way they are new and recently made unless Maxim Integrated has put them back into production AND still put the Dallas branding on them and that's incredibly unlikely.

I'll post when/if they ever show up from China. I may or may not have and otherwise working Indigo2 to try them in by that point.