Who has the best display/storage? Free chip to the winner

[gmanbc]

Borris won the last competition. This time I will give away one of the remaining chips (pics are in biggest chip collection thread) to who ever can show the best display/storage. I have been thinking about this one for years and this is the best I can come up with:

http://www.vintagechiptrader.com/Test.htm

The Kapamax storage unit is perfect for storing my plastic storage cases and CD cases. I can store 8 CD cases full of chips or one large plastic case in each of the one inch drawers and twice that in the bottom drawers. This keeps my chips safe, makes them easy to organize and gives me easy access to them.

I just moved out of my toolbox to this configuration and would move again if someone has a better idea

Lee
gmanbc

[skold]

thats definately awesome.. i dont have the $ or the space for a cabinet like that, but that doesnt stop me from keeping my stuff organized:

http://www.cpudb.com/stuff/cpus-17-04-05.jpg

in case you cant tell, the intel cpus are on the left, the amd cpus are in the middle, and cyrix/misc cpus are on the right stack

each of the stacks is ordered more or less chronologically, so finding one is easy.. inthe case of the pentium 1s (since theres so damn many) theyre also sorted by speed grades, so theres a case for pentium 75s, one for 90s, 100s, 120s, 133s, 166s, etc

also, for display, i have my website, which is finally up to date:

http://www.cpudb.com

i also think, hands down, id win a 'best domain' competition

[CPUShack]

1330+ CPUs is a PAIN to store.

mostly just drawers full of CPUs (neatly stacked) and motherboard boxed and more boxes

though I have all my boxed ones (30 or so) on a shelf along the top of a room.

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[gmanbc]

Forgot to log on! The above message is me

Lee
gmanbc

[skold]

i could, but id have to charge you for it

honestly i havent come up with a design for mine i like

the presentation of it is pretty good, but the actual code isnt what id like

id LIKE to have it all stored in an sql database, but doing that was too much work so i just went with html

[gmanbc]

[skold]

i never go near html editors

frontpage may work but it may break everything on there the first time you change something

i really dont have the time though so ill just say no now ;/

[gmanbc]

[mvortikar]

Hi Lee,

Here's my entry for your best display contest.

I constructed a custom wood case from scratch that I coated inside and out with silver metallic paint. I used a piano hinge to attach the wood framing and routed the edges to house the glass cover(this is starting to sound like an episode of This Old House). I special ordered a single piece of 1/2 inch thick anti-static foam to line the bottom to protect the goods for an eternity.

I created all the description plaques by using transparent labels that I had to cut to size and affix to the stainless steel edge-perforated plates. They are held in place with pins in each corner that I painstakingly snipped to just over ½” so they would seat in the foam correctly (I would not want to do this ever again). The info on the plaques was complied by visiting just about everyone's site that watches this forum. Needless to say, many thanks to all!

I then lined the top and bottom with halogen strip lights that were meant for under the counter lighting and routed the cabling down the left hand side, out the convenient wire hole on the bottom. To be honest, this was actually a miscalculated cut on the chop box but, it turned out to be very handy.

All chips are in intro. date order following an “N” path through the case. Wherever possible, only the first version/lowest produced speed of each family is displayed. There’s only a finite amount of room so I figured that would be the way to go.

I will eventually create a nice title plaque called, “The Evolution of the Intel x86” or something like that, inside the perimeter of that box above the gold top Pentium

Here it is with the internal and room lights on, cover open.
http://www.asmodius.com/contest/contest1.jpg

Close up shot of the crowd favorites with just the internal lights on. Notice the gaping hole between the C4004 grey trace and the D4004. Gee, I wonder what goes there? Also, that C8008/C8080A should look familiar to you.
http://www.asmodius.com/contest/contest2.jpg

Blurry overhead shot with just the internals on. Notice the occasional extra geeky addition of the actual chip dies from Intel promo key chains that I collected over the years.
http://www.asmodius.com/contest/contest3.jpg


I still have a few more plaques to create, and a few more chips to add but, there’s only so much time in the day.

Talk to ya soon,

-Mvortikar

[CPUShack]

WOW, you have some VERY nice work there.

[mvortikar]

[gmanbc]

[wepwawet]

Hi,

besides collecting, HAVING, trading I also like to see my chips.
So I have some displays at home that show some chips and boards.
All other chips are stored in good, safe but not really nice boxes that aren't worth to be shown here.

So here's my first selfmade wooden display (a bit similar to that from mvotikar - hey nice thing, I'll think about the illumination - did you try white LEDs?):



I sometimes change the content. Before I made the "i" (from TMS 4116) with the 4004 - 8086 inside and the cpu explosion at the 8080 time besides I had a "@" sign (made also with the tms chips) and the whole Intel story up to PIII inside.

As I LOVE boards here's a MCS-4 board in a TFT case:




and an illuminated MCS-40 board. I used the power button to turn on a blue LED - just as an effect and joke, not really for illumination purpose;-)

[Cpuswe]

Ok, i have to enter this contest now that i have storage...




/Thomas