Top 100 Computer Hardware Collection

[isa-d]

AL-4 it's a recent acquisition?

[CPUShack]

[isa-d]

I thought it came from this lot
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Lot-5Vintage-Computer-Magnetic-Core-Memory-Boards-parts-gold-scrap-1970s-80s-/153329880573?nordt=true&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.m43663.l10137

[CPUShack]

No though that was a nice one, that I was surprised went for that cheap

[www.yjfy.com]

No.1

Ranking Pcs Name Country
1 17000 Cpushack USA
2 15000 Jim Austin United Kingdom
3 12440 old-computers.com France
4 10000 pcmuseum.ca Canada
5 7970 homecomputer.de Germany
6 7500 Cpu-world USA
7 6000 yjfy CHINA
8 5150 lhblxw China
9 5000 binarydinosaurs.co.uk United Kingdom
10 4302 cpucollection.ca Canada
11 3300 cpu-galerie Germany
12 3071 brainstones Russian
13 2500 cpu1 Poland
14 2400 UMMR ITALY
15 2220 trailingedge usa
16 2172 Borris Germany
17 2150 Peter Austria
18 2085 rarecpus.com USA
19 2000 maoxuezhu China
20 1792 oldcomputermuseum USA
21 1703 Íøç China
22 1550 Steve USA
23 1500 Henry China
24 1500 ¹ê·àµ°×Ó China
25 1450 myoldcomputers.com USA
26 1352 zimmers.net USA
27 1340 obsoletecomputermuseum.org USA
28 1120 Thandor USA
29 1120 zzc CHINA
30 1101 CpuHanter Russian
31 1063 cpu-welt Germany
32 1037 silirium Russian
33 1004 Thomas Sweden
34 1000 ÍòÃæÒøºü China
35 1000 pinkie China
36 1000 pcang China
37 1000 Hugo929 China
38 992 Dirk Germany
39 990 Erik S. Klein USA
40 983 smiths Austria
41 884 Gecko France
42 830 hchof United Kingdom
43 820 ¶Å¿Ë China
44 806 naopy Japan
45 800 cpu-zone.com USA
46 662 CPU Grave Yard USA
47 650 ýˆËà China
48 617 hw-museum Czech
49 550 spirikay France
50 500 Gary USA
51 500 fxy China
52 500 G1nX Romania
53 468 Palcal USA
54 459 pc-schnulli.de Germany
55 451 Vlask USA
56 433 OHWC Russian
57 398 Zaatharen USA
58 381 Ëɸç China
59 370 hardware.majix.org USA
60 342 jan Netherlands
61 335 ¤Ø¤Î¥á©`¥ë¤Ï Japan
62 300 Slaventus Russian
63 291 Varus USA
64 273 itofamily.com Japan
65 228 Batyra Poland
66 219 Nikko Cheng CHINA
67 200 exxe Germany
68 200 wd2k China
69 200 beckham China
70 200 freefish China
71 200 VooDooMan China
72 200 Loeschzwerg USA
73 200 rottentreats USA
74 200 zzyzzyxx China
75 199 engineering-sample.com USA
76 169 cUsLs USA
77 160 Lincon China
78 150 jyz3230 China
79 150 ÃλØÌƳ¯ China
80 140 ÄÏ¹Ï China
81 132 ţͷ CHINA
82 121 cpu-museum.net USA
83 120 NEST China
84 114 vc collection Russian
85 100 Retro USA
86 100 5000 China
87 100 osckhar spain
88 100 FangXiang China
89 100 gwb USA
90 100 ¿ª·É»úµÄÓã China
91 100 ÂþÌì²ÊÔÆ China
92 100 hyoga China
93 90 ponyma1 China
94 81 fish Germany
95 60 Ìú½£ÊéÉú China
96 59 Vintage 3D USA
97 25 Pirx USA
98 19 Pepino USA
99 2 sssty China
100 1 ÀÏ×£ China

Not perfect, please add.

[cedrik]

well, isnt the best way to rank a collector/collection, but here we go:

- CPUs - around 2000 different CPUS (i'll count them soon , for me to know, not for you )
- other chips - Eproms and various ICs -1000+
- graphic cards - 200+
- soundcards - few - most of them went to recycling
- motherboards+CPU 20-30 (from 8088->C2D)
- different vintage boards - 50+
- laptops 100+
- 8 bits computers 30+
- complete desktop computers - from XT to C2D 25+
- many many other stuff

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[michefe]

I don't like rankings, because each collection is different: in structure, philosophy and history.
And I don't like thinking "He is a better collector than me" only if he has a double of cpus than me.
By the way,to make you happy, here is my contribute to your list:
I have (today) 375 different cpus, by 73 different manufacturer, and I'm waiting for two other little spiders and the 74th manufacturer.
But my idea of "different" may be different than yours or others.

[www.yjfy.com]

Thanks to the support and participation of collectors.
Because of the tight time, only 100 collectors' information was collected.
My goal is to include all collectors in this list.It will tell you, "Who is collecting with me?"
Bring all engineering samples and rare collections to the list.
"Great hardware deserves permanent memory!"

[debs3759]

I think half my collection is still with AVICC I'm sorting through several hundred graphics cards at the moment.

[cedrik]

[michefe]

[wepwawet]

You might put scheideanstalt.de or demotronic at first, they maybe have a million cpus.
To be serious, we are not here for competition and I do not weight an albilo N8X300I against a random modern Sspec Intel.
Here are serious collectors not even having heard about that N8something I am talking about and I don't even look at a modern CPU other than bored.
Both perspectives are OK and I respect this.

For me people like Frederic Imbert (he creates artworks from CPUs), John (for his profound knowledge and generous service), Genna (for creating this platform), Dan Nelson (showing up here with the very first 6501 find) are "the kings", just to name a few, regardless of any count.

I don't want to be mean but I clearly do not like this Idea and you might consider to keep this for your own records if you stick to counts.

I would also ignore this topic if it would not show up in my unread list again and again lol

In comparison these "who has the oldest..." topics make sense as they show f.ex. a count and provide knowledge on dates and specs.

[isa-d]

This discussion has awakened in me the question: but how many CPUs do I have in my collection?
in all these years I have never counted them and I do not keep an excel sheet.
Today is a gray and rainy day, so .... go with the count !!
they are currently 3818
few or many I'm happy with those present