Age of chips - Age of collectors

CPUShack · Posted: Wed May 19, 2004 11:12 pm Post subject: Age of chips - Age of collectors

Just been thinking of it lately.
for me some of the chips I collect (and yearn for) are rather older then me.

How old are chip collectors?

I'm a mere 22

jrmunro · Joined: 01 Feb 2003 Posts: 3149 Location: Vancouver, Canada

John

I have thought about that before, but didn`t know if anyone would be
interested.

I don`t think there are many, if any chips my age. I`m 50.
I wish I had started collecting 30 years ago.

John

CPUShack · Posted: Thu May 20, 2004 1:16 am Post subject:

I've been thinki n about it for a week...finnally decied what the heck. People cant be too worried bout their age.

Grampa · Joined: 10 Feb 2003 Posts: 56 Location: Erlangen, Germany

I was "manufactured" in week 50 / 1977 and I have 2 8080-A chips that are older than me. Took a while to find them. I have much more chips that were made in 1978 though.

- Grampa

Minuteman · Joined: 21 May 2003 Posts: 331

I was born in october 1982 (21 years old now), so I have some x86 chips older than me Wink

so this is a chip I like

skold · Joined: 30 Nov 2003 Posts: 960 Location: Canada

24 here, mostly im just interested in the cool looking ones Smile

redbaron · Joined: 15 Nov 2003 Posts: 111 Location: Erlangen, Germany

I already figured I must be rather old at 31. icon_grandpa

A lot of people responded to the "my first computer" poll on cpu-museum.de that they started with Pentium-class PCs. I can remember the feeling of envy when I saw my friend's first Sinclair ZX 81...

So, if anybody out there wants to part with an early 1973 C4004, just let me know... Very Happy

redbaron

gshv · Joined: 01 Feb 2003 Posts: 7898 Location: Fairfax, VA USA

I'm 39, and I don't any chips in my collection older than me Sad

Genna

anheier · Joined: 01 Feb 2003 Posts: 182 Location: Richland, WA

I just turned 40 so I am older than most of you young bucks. Did they even make ICs before 1964? :0

In historical perspective, when I was in college, I used a VAX 11-780 main frame to compile pascal code. The computer science department had just decommissioned the punch card interface to this computer. Teletype terminals were still used to input your code. We just received new Ramtek color displays. Boy we thought that was state of art. The education department bought the first IBM 8088 personal computers. I would sneak over there and write up my labs using WordStar.

Today, I am finding VAX 11-750 main frame boards at my local scrap dealer. The company that I work for maintains a HP/Linux Itanium-2 computer system consisting of 1960 Itanium-2 processors (Madison, 1.5 GHz) with 11.8 TFlops peak theoretical performance, 6.8 terabytes of RAM, and 450 terabytes of local scratch disk space....

Boy do things change quickly!

I have been collecting for about 3-4 years. I have amassed 500-700 unique processors and coprocessor chips. It would have been nice to start collecting 10 years ago, but without the internet and great connections like this group, it would have been difficult.

-N

Athlon64 · Joined: 18 May 2004 Posts: 1

I just turned 18 and I have a few older than me.
This one is closest to my age.

xsecret · Joined: 01 Feb 2004 Posts: 1847 Location: France

fRaSsL · Joined: 31 Mar 2003 Posts: 1570

Datecode: 0879 Laughing

Borris70 · Joined: 24 Apr 2003 Posts: 988 Location: Germany

Datecode 0470

mtx500 · Joined: 21 Nov 2003 Posts: 117 Location: Nuremberg, Germany

CPUShack · Posted: Sat May 22, 2004 12:56 pm Post subject:

Lot of younger people but alot of older ones too. Very interesting

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