{"id":55,"date":"2006-01-29T11:16:28","date_gmt":"2006-01-29T16:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=55"},"modified":"2007-10-29T11:40:49","modified_gmt":"2007-10-29T16:40:49","slug":"redwolfs-underwhelming-microprocessor-and-bios-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/55\/redwolfs-underwhelming-microprocessor-and-bios-collection","title":{"rendered":"RedWolf&#8217;s Underwhelming Microprocessor and BIOS Collection (With a Nice Case)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/cpucase\/cpu_1_large.jpg\" target=\"new\"><img src='\/wp-content\/images\/cpucase\/cpu_1_small.jpg' alt='RedWolf's CPU Collection' class=\"alignright\"\/><\/a>Apologies for the lack of updates recently.  Alas, life surely gets in the way when you&#8217;re running a free &#8220;blogazine&#8221; in your spare time.  Some ambitious articles are in the works, so stay tuned.  Meanwhile, I&#8217;ve been meaning to share this with VC&#038;G readers for months: it&#8217;s my somewhat underwhelming microprocessor and PC BIOS collection.  Why underwhelming?  Because it&#8217;s composed mostly of easy to find x86-compatible processors so far.  I am almost more proud of the case than its contents at the moment (cases like the one pictured can be had cheaply at places like Target or craft stores for around $12-$15 US).   I could add some more interesting CPUs if I was willing to rip the brains out of my old computers (which, in general, I&#8217;m not).  But I do have something like six nasty C-64s sitting around, so I should at least add a 6510 to my collection.  My favorite part is the 64-pin Motorola 68000 chip that I painstakingly de-soldered from a surplus Mac Plus motherboard some years ago.  I&#8217;ve always wanted one of those loose because of their unique package size (not among 68000s, but among DIPs in general).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/cpucase\/cpu_2_large.jpg\" target=\"new\"><img src='\/wp-content\/images\/cpucase\/cpu_2_small.jpg' alt='RedWolf's CPU Collection' class=\"alignleft\"\/><\/a>So far in my collection I have the following (from left to right, top to bottom): Intel A80486SX-25, Intel A80486DX-33, Intel A80386DX-25 (x2), Intel P8080A, Intel D80287-10 (co-processor), IIT 3C87-40 (386 clone, I think), Intel R80286-10, Intel CG80286-8, Intel A80387DX-25 (co-prossesor), Motorola MC68000P8.  Then I have a bunch of different PC BIOS chips that aren&#8217;t all that amazing &#8212; the only notable ones are the Phoenix 3.10 chips, and the Mac Plus ROMs (which obviously aren&#8217;t BIOSes, but I don&#8217;t know where else to put them).<\/p>\n<p><!--adsense#Wide--><\/p>\n<p>If anybody wants to donate some CPUs to the VC&#038;G Microprocessor collection, let me know. \ud83d\ude42  Also, if you have a collection yourself, feel free to show us some pictures or discuss it in the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So far in my collection I have the following (from left to right, top to bottom): Intel A80486SX-25, Intel A80486DX-33, Intel A80386DX-25 (x2), Intel P8080A, Intel D80287-10 (co-processor), IIT 3C87-40 (386 clone, I think), Intel R80286-10, Intel CG80286-8, Intel A80387DX-25 (co-prossesor), Motorola MC68000P8. Then I have a bunch of different PC BIOS chips that aren&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-collecting","category-macintosh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}