> That's why you'd want a good programmer with all the checks enabled and polish the > legs and dump, reseat, reverify each rom 10 or so times in those cases and make sure > you get the same CRC every time. That or let your paranoia waste other people's > money.
Sure, there's some potential benefit to holding onto boards until they're completely emulated. But there's definite value to selling something and generating funds to buy more needed boards. It doesn't sound like it's been a big problem so far.
Of course, the other thing to keep in mind is cases where there's rare and unusual hardware, and a developer might want to run tests on it years down the road. But if that's not likely, and the dump is highly likely to be good, I say sell away.