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Vlad The Impaler
Joined: 24 Feb 2003
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Location: UK
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 Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2012 11:02 am Post subject: Pentium Overdrive Mech Sample Auction |
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I saw an auction for a Pentium Overdrive Mech Sample
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Pentium-Overdrive-Mechanical-Sample-Intel-PODP3V-CPU-very-Rare-/251029566123?pt=AU_Computers_Vintage&hash=item3a728732ab#ht_698wt_1059
recently end at £300 or so. Amazing, as this is only one small part of the complete set that Intel sent out to their OEMs for the different Pentium Overdrive qualification programmes.
I have three boxes:
1x contained Electrical and Mechanical samples (Pentium Skt5 OD)
1x contained the Mechanical Sample with Spacers as seen in the above auction, but for Skt5 OD.
1x contained a very special ES 486 DX2 66 with Write Back cache (only available on Intel DX4s to market) which was to test the Pentium Overdrive (P24T) cache support on 486 mobo bios.
These three boxes don't belong all togther. The first two are for Skt5 Pentium OD, and the last matches the P24T spacer mech smaple in the auction.
Hope this of interest; at these prices perhaps I should sell! I have not been active in CPU collecting for a long time now. I got rather bored of it. |
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JAC
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| Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2012 11:14 am Post subject: |
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| Nice stuff Vlad, infact I think you have some very good stuff stashed away. Bring it out and sell it or show us what you have. |
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debs3759
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| Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2012 11:29 am Post subject: |
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Nice to see you back around Jac. Seems like a few years since you were active here 
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Vlad The Impaler
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| Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2012 1:44 pm Post subject: |
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| JAC wrote: | | Nice stuff Vlad, infact I think you have some very good stuff stashed away. Bring it out and sell it or show us what you have. |
OK, I had nothing to do this afternoon, so I turned out my cupboards. I have not looked at this stuff for a long time. I used to specialise in unused retail boxed CPUS and FPUs. Maybe I need to find somewhere less humid to put this, the boxed stuff is not doing so well where it is.
In no particular order, I photographed some interesting things nearest the door.
Retail Boxed P90
ES 486 DX2-66 Surface Mount in Intel Sample box
Retail Boxed P60 unused FDIV bug
ES Cyrix 6x86 in Cyrix box. I bought this and a load of stuff from an ex-Cyrix guy in the USA in 2002. He sent me an A4 pad holder that had Cyrix CPU cores embedded in it as I recall. Can't find it though.
Intel P4m sample set sealed. Gennady has the only other one - which I traded with him years ago.
'Foster' core Xeon Thermal Sample in Intel box
AMD Sledgehammer and Clawhammer ES Athlon and Opteron 64
ES AMD 286
ES Intel Nocona Sample in plain box
Intel 'Not for Resale' OEM Warranty Replacement PIII 1Ghz Sealed
Intel Embedded Pentium P133 in box
Cyrix 486Drx Upgrade Sealed
AMD Pluto ES
C+T FPU sealed in box
Nx587 FPU
It is has been a nice way to spend some time - I almost remember why I started doing this in the first place. It all seems depressingly expensive now though! |
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JAC
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| Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2012 2:27 pm Post subject: |
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And that is just the stuff near the door  I really like the boxed P90.
Here and there Debs, been very busy with new job. |
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Vlad The Impaler
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| Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2012 2:30 pm Post subject: |
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| It was always one of my most liked - I have never seen another one like it. Although, I would have thought the P60 more rare. I was starting out in IT about the time it came out. As I recall they always came attached to motherboards, just like 386 and 486s used to. They were the very last CPUs that we did not buy seperately; making a retail one quite rare. I never saw one in the flesh at the time. |
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JAC
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| Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2012 2:47 pm Post subject: |
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I have never seen an early boxed pentium. Very nice indeed.
Yes, the early 90's were the days. Heady times for computing. By the time I could afford a pentium, they were the cheaper CPGA packages without the gold heatspreader. I recall upgrading almost every couple of months* or as my budget would allow.
I wish I had known then I was going to be collecting chips.
*Now I have two workstations, one 10 years old and the other 4 years old.. the only upgrade is to a SSD C drive in each workstation. |
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johnorun
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Vlad The Impaler
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| Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2012 4:16 pm Post subject: |
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See, I was always terrible for keeping hold of things when I worked in the workshop. I started just putting old CPUs away I got for nothing, and my did we get a lot of old PCs in for upgrade back then. SUprising what would come in, from 286-6s in IBM XT/286 PCs to a Nexgen from an embedded ROV control PC. I pulled a 5x86 133Mhz out of our old server, still with the blue heatsink on it!
Also, it was always good being an Intel channel partner - getting ES from Intel to test etc, although we were normally good and gave it back!
I don't get that now, as don't get my hands dirty anymore. |
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WFS2005
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Location: HB China
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| Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2012 12:07 am Post subject: |
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Very nice BOX CPU!!
I love them.
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