Which was your very first....?

[Kev Vader]

I am still close enough to the beginning of this hobby to remember which CPU was the very first in my collection.

It was this SX218, and it was traded to me for an old hard drive about 3 years ago.

[debs3759]

My first chip was a 486 DX40 for my first system build 20 years ago. I wasn't a collector back then, but x86 chips were what made a collector of me when I was writing CPUID code.

[KK_Fin]

I can't remember exactly, but I guess it was i486 DX2-66. Year was 2003 when in my workplace some old PCs got scrapped. I just decided to look what kind of PCs they were and I saw some 486s. A new collector was born.

[bccwchan]

My first was PPRo that bought in late December 2003 from local auction website at HKD40 (USD5).

[bccwchan]

Don't know why it changed to very ugly after years and sold it for HKD100 (USD12) in 2011

[hardwarecop]

The 1st CPU I've touched in my life was this Athlon 64 from the computer of my father that died. When we moved the house and had to throw away the non working rest, I rescued the CPU (this photo shows this original CPU, not just some random from the internet)

Then I just started buying some P4s for fun since they were super cheap.
I think the 1st collectible, vintage chip I've got was an AMD Am486 DX-40 from a friend who gave me that CPU for free. Then the whole thing began...[/img]

[fritsp2007]

My first one..it stood years on the attic..that was in the year 2004.

[iguana]

I do not remember.

It was just a box with old CPUs remaining after upgrade/repair client's PCs

[xsecret]

A QT69 Pentium 4 back in 2001. Found it on eBay US. Looked odd with the big cap and it was cheap ($4.99). Second was a Pentium Pro 166 ES for $0.99 ... Good ol' days

[wepwawet]

http://www.cpu-world.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2823
here is a similar topic:-)

My first CPU as a collectible was a P8080

[molka]

My first CPU in the collection was this C8080A, that I found among my old electronic components at end of 2010.

[lhf_james]

[OrBit]

A Pentium Pro 180 SY013 is my first CPU in 2004 someday.

[henriok]

As a Mac user I had been a fan of PowerPC for a long time and when my work retired the RS/6000 server we had, I yanked the CPU board off it. It was my first.

Dual 375 MHz IBM POWER3-II of a RS/6000 44P 270



I still haven't been able to remove the heat sinks from the processors
After that, I yanked almost all CPUs from every Mac we retired.

[Chook]

My first cpus were 386 and 486s. I was given an Intel 486 Overdrive box with about 8 cpus in it, a mix of 486 and 386. It came from a local PC shop that has long since closed. That started my collection in about 1999.
You can see those first cpus sitting on my Lego town!