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Original Intel Pentium Processor (old!)

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I currently have a very old Intel Pentium processor, the original ones. Its is the main processor die, with no bent contacts, extracted from an old computer that also had a 5 1/4 inch floppy drive.
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Any idea on how much this is worth?
 





Oh man... that thing takes me back :D

To me it's worth about 30 seconds of nostalgia. Maybe in another decade it will be worth something financially though.
 
Yeah it going to be a long while before any IBM stock will be worth any money. 3rd world countries, and a lot of companies here (believe it or not) are still using that old technology. Its not rare in any sense. So its pretty much a paperweight.
 
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Yeah I just retired the last Pentium 60 server from our data center about a year ago.. it had been recording physician's dictations for years.
 
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It seems, to me anyway, that its mostly the medical field still using outdated computers. My doctor has a new laptop, and its funny to watch her fumble her way through imputing data.
 
Probably like $5? Really, they're not that rare. Hell, I have an old 486 processor right here, and a 386 in one of the unused machines behind me.
 
Its amazing how fast things change. I remember looking at a 4g hard drive and saying it was bottomless pit.
 
Yeah, it's insane. I doubled my hard drive space from 40MB to 80MB on my old 386 because I was able to get a second hard drive. I even had another 40MB hard drive that I seriously contemplated swapping out as needed. Back then space was so tight that the temporary file that Windows 3.1 would generate to print stuff from Write would often be too big and I'd have to clear out stuff to make room for it.

Later, with a much needed upgrade, I went up from those 2x 40MB hard drives to a 2.4GB hard drive on a Pentium 150Mhz. It was amazing seeing that many zeros of free space on the drive when typing "dir" in the DOS command window. It seemed endless.
 
I still have an old tower down stairs that has an old pentium and windows 95. It no longer works for more than 5 minutes, then it shuts down.
 
My first computer was a 486, Windows 3.1, with a B drive, Turbo button, 12inch VGA monitor, and a double stacked hard drive. I got a virus the first day downloading porn pix for the GIF, and JPG rooms on AOL, LOL. I did meet a lot of girls though AOL though.
 
That's something you don't see anymore is a computer with a turbo button. It really doesn't seem like it was that long ago, "oh god I am getting old!":cryyy:
 
I never had a PC that had the button, mabe it just turned the cooling fan on!
I am thinking about getting a new laptop, just haven't decided what I am going to get. This one is 4 years old and has crappy Vista, don't know if I want another Dell.
 
The Turbo button allowed the Clock speed to be increased by
a small amount to get the CPU to run as it was designed..
You could only see the speed difference if you desined a small
program that counted the instruction loops in a second.

The button should have been called normal speed/slower speed

I still have a 286 in the shop that tests our Pool Light Control
Modules...
I love DOS..... Never Crashes... Does one job at a time and
does it extremely well... Just like me...:eg::crackup:

Jerry
 


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