New member, can't believe I'm just finding this place!

[Katmai500]

Hello everyone!

My name is Ryan, I'm 22, and I've been collecting since I was about 15 years old. I have just recently begun expanding my collection at a decent pace, and now have about 100 or so CPUs in my growing collection. Initially, I collected from old computers I would occasionally come across. More recently I have been buying CPUs and getting them from a recycling program at work.

It's great to see other people who are even more crazy about CPUs than I am! I've been reading through the forum like a kid in a candy store for the past couple hours. Some of these rare CPUs and engineering samples have me drooling!

I am at school right now, but when I get home I will post a full list of my collection. Most of it is probably rather uninteresting compared to some of the rare stuff here, although I do think I have a pretty early example of a socket 423 Pentium 4, year 2000, week 44. I'm curious to see any input on this.

Also, most of my collecting comes from old computers and eBay. Many of you have these rare engineering samples, which I have always wanted to find for myself. Where do you find some of these great CPUs? I saw one post about someone getting a whole pile of CPU/FPUs, including a few 287 XLs and a D8080A for $20!!! Where are all of you experts finding this stuff???

Great to meet all of you and I hope to be a contributing member to this forum!!!

[naked1300]

hey, welcome here, and no! you are not crazy, you have one of the coolest and most interesting hobbies.
looking forward to see your collection.

[CPUShack]

be prepared some spend some fun money on ebay and here on the forum lol

also your neighborhood may have certain days where ewaste can be dumped for recycling, can make for some good finds

[jrmunro]

Yes welcome to the forum. Nice to see more people collecting.

[jrmunro]

There is another collector here from NJ.

[Chiefish]

Yeaaa another Jerzy Boy here Welcome to the forum , I think most of us started out the same way and then started actually collecting chips instead of just saving them for the trash bin. Where are you in N.J. , Im up in the northwest just outside of Newton, Theres another collector from jersey here as well, maybe a couple more too that im not sure of. Anyway have fun and I gaurentee youll learn alot from these guys as they are very knowledgable and from all corners of the planet

[gshv]

Welcome to the forum! You may want to browse old forum topics - there is a wealth of information there related to CPU collecting.

Gennadiy

[Fossalta]

Welcome to the club!

[JAC]

Hello, welcome, please send your membership fee to me.

[wepwawet]

Yeah welcome,
btw, the membership fee is simply one buck per post count of the answering people here (no matter if their posts made sense ever;-)
So CPUShack's response is most expensive.
Be careful with posts he could answer, lol

Ups, he already did:-(
And Genna, and JAC. Wow, that costs!

In terms of getting hands on old stuff, look for local junkyards and recyclers, or eg. online resellers like demotronic. They sell to collectors too (let me know if you need assistance with esp. demotronic ad they and me are german)

Michael

[johnorun]

Welcome Ryan...

Types of chips:
Potato & Tortilla chips-- Don't last, too edible and can spoil
Casino chips-- last but easy to loose at the gambling table
Fish & Chips-- Don't last, easily eaten and can spoil
Glass chips-- good only for making stained glass windows

CPU/IC Chips-- Durable, often beautiful, often reusable, important pieces of tech history, rare and getting rarer, easy to store and display, never spoil, can't be eaten by Dog, assets that increase in value....THE BEST, Coolest and only CHIPS to Collect!

[smithy]

john, have you been smoking your chips again or drinking too much wine lol

[johnorun]

[smithy]

[johnorun]