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bccwchan
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 Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2023 9:45 pm Post subject: 20 years ago, the story begin |
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I bought my first collection purpose cpu.
It is a Pentium Pro cpu,
Bought from Hong Kong local market at HKD40 (approx USD5) |
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bccwchan
Joined: 20 Sep 2004
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| Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2023 9:47 pm Post subject: |
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| Don't know why it became ugly later (LOL) so I sold it at HKD100 in Hong Kong local market at HKD100(approx USD12) |
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bccwchan
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| Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2023 9:54 pm Post subject: |
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and kept buying from Hong Kong famous electronic market - ( (Sham Shui Po Golden Market)
still remembered how happy I was when I found the A80501 for sales at HKD50 (approx USD6) |
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bccwchan
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| Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2023 10:01 pm Post subject: |
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| bought this fake overdrive from Hong Kong local market at around Jan 2004. at HKD40 (approx USD4) |
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bccwchan
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| Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2023 10:18 pm Post subject: |
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found the MHS8086 on selling website base Yahoo.com.hk on Feb 2004.
I won the listing at HKD278 (approx. USD36) and believe the price was pulled by the seller using another bidding ID.
At that time, I believed I bought a very rare cpu because you can't find any 8086/8088 cpu in Hong Kong after 2000. But in fact I was wrong LOL. |
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yk
Joined: 17 Oct 2011
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| Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2023 5:01 am Post subject: |
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| In 2003，I bought my first collection (Pentium PRO ) for RMB45 in Guangzhou . |
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Marcin
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| Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2023 6:21 am Post subject: |
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You guys started 1 year before me when I was in high school. Time goes fast but nice to see how it started 
My "ignition moment" was when I got a bunch of old, common CPUs from a friend at work where I had school practise. There were 486s, Pentium Is, and AMD K5 and I liked them from first sight haha 
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OrBit
Joined: 28 Feb 2005
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bccwchan
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| Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2023 7:58 pm Post subject: |
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4 months later (2004-04 ) I started buying cpu from ebay. New page begun.
The first purchase was one Z80A and P8088 cpu. The price was USD3.5 and USD16, shipping is USD3. |
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bccwchan
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| Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2023 8:06 pm Post subject: |
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| kept the related screen for my record also LOL. |
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bccwchan
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| Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2023 8:11 pm Post subject: |
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| At that time(around 2004 ), you could buy a Pentium Overdrive 133 below USD10. |
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bccwchan
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| Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2023 8:16 pm Post subject: |
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Very soon at May 2004, I started to buy/negotiate with the ebay seller by email (off ebay transaction).
I ordered the 486 Overdrive ODP486SX-20 SZ675 at USD8 but finally the below arrived. |
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bccwchan
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| Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2023 8:19 pm Post subject: |
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| Subseqentially I realized the seller was one of the retailer from Silicon Village. |
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rjluna2
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| Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2023 7:57 am Post subject: |
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| bccwchan wrote: | Very soon at May 2004, I started to buy/negotiate with the ebay seller by email (off ebay transaction).
I ordered the 486 Overdrive ODP486SX-20 SZ675 at USD8 but finally the below arrived. |
Look like you picked up Q697 with B1 stepping here  |
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bccwchan
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| Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2023 7:26 pm Post subject: |
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| rjluna2 wrote: | | bccwchan wrote: | Very soon at May 2004, I started to buy/negotiate with the ebay seller by email (off ebay transaction).
I ordered the 486 Overdrive ODP486SX-20 SZ675 at USD8 but finally the below arrived. |
Look like you picked up Q697 with B1 stepping here |
Yes, begginer luck. |
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