Cpu collecting history: sites before Cpuworld

[D.8080]

Ok, Grampa and his cpu-museum.
Before that, where you used to go to?

In early 2000 I was on a site that I believe was cpu-museum(dot)com, or similar, was in german.

Than hopped on the fresh cpuworld, and registered years after when I became serious into collecting (read: as I got the money to back it up).


What was your way to cpu sites/forums?

[Tetrium]

I was actually very late to visiting dedicated cpu forums. The reason is simple, I didn't know they existed! (except for cpu-museum.de but never felt inclined to register there).

The collected knowledge this forum has is just mindboggling.
In my social circle (if it's called that in english) I am by far the person with the most knowledge about cpu's (and hardware in general, they always come to me but my knowledge pales when I compare it with what people know here

[gshv]

Three big sites that heavily influenced cpu-world:

www. antiquetech. com - Has excellent information on pre-80 chips, and very useful hobby articles. I added spaces to the website name to prevent making it a link - it seems that the home page was hijacked, and redirects to a spam page now.

www.cpu-museum.com - again, excellent information about vintage chips. I've got family page layout idea from this site, and a little bit from antiquetech.

www.cpu-museum.de - great resource on more modern microprocessors.

I think www.cpu-zone.com existed before cpu-world.com. I visited it often, but not as much as other sites. It was Intel-only collection, and it didn't fit exactly my collection type.

Gennadiy

[gshv]

A few more sites to add to my previous post:

http://www.itofamily.com/ito/collections/index.html - existed before CPU-World
www.cpu-info.com - I think it's older than CPU-World
www.cpushack.com (was .net before, I'm not mistaken) and www.cpu-collection.de - these are at least as old as CPU-World, if not older.

Gennadiy

[CPUShack]

cpu-shack.com? awful close to mine lol

[eledga]

I started with Aad Offermann's lists

[frag_]

It was cpu-collection.de in 2004 for me,
not very large collection, but well structured.
Then i found this site, and others,
and started collecting in 2006.

[Chook]

I discovered cpu-museum.de first, then this forum a while later. I started collecting after seeing a collection displayed in a glass case in a local second hand computer parts shop. This shop is now long gone.

[vinicio]

[gshv]

[Chiefish]

I only ever visited Grampas site before CPU World, Mainly because I never really considered myself a collector of CPUs, just accumulated them from upgrades and such. Then I googled cpu collection and found Gramps site and that led me here where I have stayed ever since. People still ask why I would waste my time collecting these and i just remind them of the first stamp collectors that people in that time called nuts as well, but after seeing some of the auctions for thousands of dollars they understand.

[Mixeur]

In addition to those which have been already cited above, Sandpile for me.

[Elar]

And http://www.st.rim.or.jp/~nkomatsu/ICcollection.html from 1999