Feast thine eyes upon my CPU

[FelixDeCat]

A sweet Intel 186 I picked up on Ebay. Amazing that they were developing pinless designs 27 years ago.

 

[waffleironhead]

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[Cheesetogo]

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new monitor: buy one

 

[FelixDeCat]

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wat

 

[FelixDeCat]

new monitor: buy one

But why get rid of a good .27 14 inch Acer moniter in this day and age?

 

[Arcadio]

Mine is better:

 

[dfuze]

Have anything to drop it into, or just collecting old chips?

 

[l0cke]

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Not depending on other people: look it up
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/30119

 

[Colt45]

IBM had flip chips in the 60's.

 

[FelixDeCat]

Have anything to drop it into, or just collecting old chips?

I dont have anything to drop it into (yet), but I figure they dont make 'em like this anymore and it makes
a nice little momento about the size of a quarter on my desktop.

Listening to Kraftwerk's Home Computer from 1982 is perfect while gazing at the chip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMDXxaOkGeU

"I program my home computer, beam myself into the future"

 

[shortylickens]

Thats nice, but is it cold?
If its not, you can cool it with solution.

 

[daw123]

If you don't use it in a PC, make it into a keyring instead:

 

[FelixDeCat]

If you don't use it in a PC, make it into a keyring instead:

I had thought of this but the edges are kind of sharp and I've been poked before.

 

[FelixDeCat]

Thats nice, but is it cold?
If its not, you can cool it with solution.

Not that I've ever fired up a 186, but I remember my 386sx16 not even needing a fan or heatsink.

 

[Colt45]

I had a 188 or 186 out of some HP test equipment.. it had a teeny little heatsink.

afaik, 188/6, are like 8086/8, with some peripherals... except they're not at the same locations as they are on a pc/xt, so xt software doesnt work... might have a couple extras too..

 

[AVAFREAK182]

I had thought of this but the edges are kind of sharp and I've been poked before.

No comment.

 

[daw123]

I had thought of this but the edges are kind of sharp and I've been poked before.

I rounded off the edges a bit with a file to prevent pokeage.

 

[daw123]

Mine is better:

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Mine's even better:

 

[FelixDeCat]

IBM had flip chips in the 60's.

A true pinless land grid array?

 

[Colt45]

Yep. of course microprocessors weren't invented yet, so it was just transistors and gates, etc.

 

[PottedMeat]

crack that sucka open:

i've got a bunch of those those intel 186s and a couple amd 186s
can't remember if i used a torch or soldering iron to take off the bottom plate.

 

[FelixDeCat]

crack that sucka open:



i've got a bunch of those those intel 186s and a couple amd 186s
can't remember if i used a torch or soldering iron to take off the bottom plate.[/QUOTE]

Good show old chap! Seeing soldered wires in a CPU design is rather quaint I should say. Those 186s were going for about $10 each on Ebay recently.

 

[dwell]

The only historic CPU worth mentioning:

Everything else is wrong.

 

[ElFenix]

i have an AMD K5. rare processor

 

[nonameo]

Oh yeah? I have a kitchenaid food processor. It will tear all other processors to shreds.