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22 Year old Cpu/sink!

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About a year ago, I found this extremely old pc at work and ripped these parts out. Normally I just trash that old stuff, but this HS/CPU looked pretty cool. The scale of the pix may be off since I took these in macro mode, so the cpu is about the size of a US quarter. And who ever thought you'd see Intel AND Amd printed on the same chip!l funny...

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alot of the old chips say both intel and amd on them....

i find it kinda strange though 286 in 1982....my 80-88 was made after that and its older technology than a 286...

can you show us the case it came out of?
 
Originally posted by Niku
alot of the old chips say both intel and amd on them....

i find it kinda strange though 286 in 1982....my 80-88 was made after that and its older technology than a 286...

can you show us the case it came out of?
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I threw it out about a year ago.
 
That heatsink made me roofle. It looks like a stack of defaced U.S. currency.
 
At first I thought to myself "there's no pins on that processor!" then I took a better look. :eek: Been a LONG time since I pulled anything apart THAT old.
 
I dont know if 22 years is quite correct. Where did you find that, Beacuse around 22 years ago they were still using the 8088 and 8086 processors, i don't know if the 286 8 mhz were out.

Edit: I see the date stamp now duh. But I think that that was the origional design /copyright date. Don't think they sold for another year or 2.
 
if you're careful with a razor you can cut that plate off of it and reveal the die. It's really cool to see all the crap under there and those ultra tiny wires that connect the die to the contacts on the edge. I had a 286-12 that I did that to. Took me about an hour to get that plate off. Don't remember what happened to it otherwise I'd take a picture of it :)
 
those things must be a coolectors item by now. I'd put them in a small case and proudly display them for everyone's viewing pleasure... or just have them sitting in the closet. either one would be ok
 
reminds me of the first computer i killed (286 IBM PS/2 system... damn those sucked) i have a couple old chips lying around (just none quite THAT old) cyrix p200, amd k6-2/2+/3 pentium 1 (go 60mhz w/ divide errors) pentium mmx... fun stuff:)

why don't they make heatsinks like that anymore?
 
i wonder if that was like the uber overclocking chip and heatsink back in the day ;) it is older than me
 
lol
I have a chip of the same form factor. not sure what it is as there is no writing on it. also it didn't have a heat sink on when i pulled it out of an old machine. must have been about 12 years ago now.
 
Yep I just did a search on Google on processor timeline. They show the old 8086-8088 in 1978. The 286 in 1982. The 386 in 1985 & the 486 in 1989. Damm I thought I was smoking back in 1992 when I bought my 1st PC. It was an AMD SX386-25mhz. I used that thing for about 2-1/2 yrs till I busted a capacitor off trying to install a 386-to-486 overdrive chip.
 
hey where did you find my chip!

i used to run a renegade 1005 bbs off that chip!
 
My first computer...

Magnavox 286. 12mhz, 4mbs RAM, 36mb hard drive. (That was HUGE back then.)
 
Originally posted by rogue_jedi
reminds me of the first computer i killed (286 IBM PS/2 system... damn those sucked) i have a couple old chips lying around (just none quite THAT old) cyrix p200, amd k6-2/2+/3 pentium 1 (go 60mhz w/ divide errors) pentium mmx... fun stuff:)

why don't they make heatsinks like that anymore?
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thats not very old at all you know...

my oldest is an 80-88 with TV out and a internal modem which would have cost a fortune then....the monitor port its like a serial cable its got 3 40 meg hard drives in it and 1 floppy drive but they've all lost their formatthing from sitting to long so they need to be re low leveld again...for some reason i cant get it to do that

640K...max is 1024 and its all by little EPROM chips instead of sticks of ram like now
 
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