Going into "active collecting" mode.

[Fossalta]

I've been snooping around these forums for a while now and read some very interesting stuff. So as a first post in this forum a small introduction.

My first experience with computers was when I was about 6 y.o, my dad loanded a Commodore C64 from his work during the holiday, and couldn't stop playing games on that thing. When my dad bought his first "real" pc, a 50Mhz 486, I had my first experience with x86 and windows 3.11

During the years my interest in computers grew and started to do software programming. Nothing fancy but I loved the challenge of finding ways to get certain things done. When I was about 16 I started to build up a network of friends and relatives that call me when they have a computer problem. Offcourse they told their friends and relatives about me, and I now have about 150 addresses I help with computer problems (both hard and software).

During my school time, I always walked by a crate in the parking garage that the IT department used for scrap storage to find for things I could use. Mostly I found old pentium 1/2 boxes that were beeing thrown away, but they day before summer holiday appearently they had to make room for new pc's because almost every pc in the building (mostly p3's) were stacked up there. It took me most of the afternoon, and a big part of the morning (went back even though I had no classes) to get the most important stuff out (cpu's, mem, hdd and as much mobo's and psu's as I could carry).

Unfortunatly I threw away a lot of hardware too, I even sent the small collection of 486's and Pentium 1's I got to another collector, because at that time those cpu's were useless to me... (d'oh !). I also regret throwing out an old compaq pressario server, it had a dual socket 8 mobo and i'd love to get the 2 pentium pro's (that I DID save) to put to work.

Now, a few years (and a few cpu's) later I decided to start activly collecting cpu's. My preference is for Intel x86/x64 but if I can find a nice batch of amd and offcourse the "hard to find" ones, i'll have those too.

Currently I have about a 100 cpu's, some doubles and some broken but I'm going to sort them out, put them in nice storage boxes and create a website to show them online and keep track of which cpu's I have and don't have.

The nicest cpu (actually mcu) i have is an engineering sample of an Atmel AT90S8515 (AVR family), I got this from one of my teachers during my study. (see attachment)

Fossalta

[kosmokrator]

Well come to the forum and to the active collecting

also very nice MCU ...i like it!

[JAC]

Sounds good. Dont worry about stuff that got away.

[Chiefish]

Welome to the forum, seems like a story Ive heard before where people including myself just started accumulating cpus, not realizing they are being collected by others and then discovering they are and vuala you are a collector and didnt even know it. And like Jac said dont worry about what has gotten away just focus on whats to come.

[CPUShack]

welcome aboard You'll find lots of goodies on the foru,, and on ebay (AVICC will help with reshipping)