How do you store/showcase all those vintage CPUs?

[liudr]

Just registered . Has been collecting since around 2005 and visiting cpu-world for reference ever since I found the site. Great place.

So a silly question: I have many CPUs and I don't have a decent way to store and showcase them. These are not your average processors that fit inside of pentium-1 trays. The smaller ones like 286, 68010 or dips such as 8088, 6502, Z80 etc and some surface mount (desoldered) 386sx's are taking a lot of my limited cardboard box spaces and I'm overflown with recent CPU traded from all over the world (literially from many European countries, Canada and US). I have over 100 cpu trays but all one size, best for pent, amd k5/6/7, pIII, etc. I even bought pentium-pro trays .

So how do you real collectors store and showcase your collections?

BTW, I am offering this link I just found to show how sincere I am towards this hobby :

http://www.geek.com/articles/chips/russian-geek-puts-your-cpu-collection-to-shame-20100729/

Is this guy any of you?

[smithy]

Welcome to the forums! This is probably the best topic to answer your question on storing:

http://www.cpu-world.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7927&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=storing&start=0

[cedrik]

i just put some pictures from my collection here:

http://blogofcedrik.wordpress.com/2011/11/15/colectia-de-procesoare-cpu-collection/

[liudr]

[naked1300]

http://www.cpu-world.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=16632

here you can see my storing.

[liudr]

[liudr]

I'm trying to find a cheap source of anti-static foam and here is what I found:

http://www.jameco.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Product_10001_10001_13864_-1

It's already much cheaper than a few other places I found. Any cheaper sources in the USA? Thanks.

BTW, I was reading on that cpu collection sale:

http://www.cpu-world.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=17061

The OP has handmade pads for framing the CPUs. I just thougth it's pretty cool. If I could do the same thing but slide the pads in a rack like the ones in IKEA dining area accepting trays, then I can save space with such a tray holder, holding a bunch of pads by their edges (need plastic pads for rigidity). I can then slide them out and show them on a display stand and stow them back in the rack after showing. Think in terms of a jukebox. Discs are stacked together for storage and brought out to be played only on demand. Yeah, I could even build such a moterized arm to bring in and out my cpu "records". One can always dream

[debs3759]

I have about 21 sheets of 10mm thick anti-static foam that is 350mm x 550mm (that's approx 22" x 14" x 3/8"). I can sell you up to 20 (the last one has cat hairs all over it so isn't suitable for selling or storing chips on) for £4 (approx $6.40) per sheet including airmail shipping if you want at least 5 sheets (the easiest and cheapest way for me to ship them is in boxes of 10 sheets, as I can get boxes that fit that many and are just inside the size limits for airmail from the UK).

I sold a lot of the same foam at http://www.cpu-world.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10474, so if you need to know how good the foam is you can read the last couple of pages or ask someone who bought some (of course, I would say it is good as I am selling it).

[liudr]

debs,

Thanks for the offer. I am interested. Your link is broken so I couldn't check what people say. So just be clear, this is the high density foam you can press your chips into and the chips will stay put, right?

[Neon_WA]

[jrmunro]

[liudr]