Format of Web Collections

[Neon_WA]

Looking at the different ways people catalogue their collection on the web, i was trying to get a gauge of which is the most popular way of displaying them.

I know in this day and age you can wonderful things on the web, but lets say you can only show the collection in a fixed format.

What catalogue format do you think is best to use?

[CPUShack]

by manufacturer and/or type (like 2901, 486, etc)

[Neon]

I think a directory tree structure, something like:

Manufacturer --> Generation --> Series --> Model Name --> Part Number --> Manufacture Date

Examples:

AMD --> K7 --> Sempron --> 2200+ --> SDA2200DUT3D --> 0435BPMW

Sun --> UltraSPARC --> IIi --> 360 --> SME1040PGA-360 --> 9837

[hugo929]

I am designing my site catagorized both by manufacturers and by families .

[jrmunro]

Mine are by part # then manufacturer.
I`m thinking of maybe changing to manufacture/part#
sometime.

[faber]

by manufacturer-family
and
by family-manufacturer

[iguana]

Mine are by manufacturer and(or) family(together or individually).
So you can select all Intel chips or all 8080 (aside from manufacturer) or all Intel i8080.
The temporary problem is... I have added soviet chips but not Western (just have no time for it).

[lither]

by how they are stored
such as i will put TCP pentium in a box and cermaic pentium in another box
so pentium will be classified as intel=>pentium=>TCP, intel=>pentium=>cPGA,

and i put all 8080 in a box
therefore
intel 8080 and AMD 8080 are in a same category.

[debs3759]

I list by manufacturer, major family, minor family, type, sub-type (although most do not have every one of the above in the path)

eg:

Intel ==> x86 ==> Pentium ==> P5

When I upload a revised edition of my site (to show what remains after the big sale, with an update on the status of the collection) I will have a few more of the existing manufacturer/family groups better organised according to my way of listing

[eledga]

Hi,

I prefer a database solution.

I have created one for my collection 'a lotus approach' - database but on my web-site I am not allowed to use sql.

In the database I have several fields:

manufacturer / kind of chip = CPU or FPU / name / package / ...

I can search with wild cards in every fields also with combinations to other fields. The result can be a list or the possibility to look at each item.

But maintenance is always the hardest work.

So shit in shit out.

[Malyshh]

I have question too
What parameters do you use for catalogue?
I want to write programm for catalogue collection.
What database do you use?

[hugo929]

i can easily find a host support mysql, but i am using xml currently. I think xml is enough

[johnorun]

[donutty]

It depends for what reason the person is collecting them. For those interested in the history, then it date order. For those interested in what type of technology then I suppose you could list by fabrication type (NMOS / CMOS etc.) or even by process size (1 micron, 0.45 micron etc.)

[thomsonicus]

I think manufacturer is best for general cataloguing for CPUs, but donutty sure has a point here, it depends what one expects from a collection.