Found a Pentium 2 Processor!

[lamborgini8]

I have been poking around the house for things to sell recently and my dad just emptied out a load of stuff from the loft. Look what we happened to come across! Pentium 2 processor it's 12 years old and looks like it should be in a museum!

Max CPU clock was 450MHz haha!

 

[rangedunits]

Lol, i have still my amdk7 400mhz and my older comp with windows 3.1 on it. Not sure in wich box they are but i kept thems.

 

[ElektroFreak]

I still have a functional 486 machine with a 486DX4-100 overdrive processor in it, 4MB of RAM and 750MB HDD. It hasn't been turned on for over a year, but it will still boot to DOS last time I checked.. It was the first computer I ever built back in 1991.

I have examples of desktop processors going back to the 8086, of all different makes and models. IBM, Motorola, Intel, AMD, Cyrix, you name it, it's probably in my boxes somewhere..

 

[Trevor]

Ahh, the good days of not even needing a heatsink. I forget what precisely it was, but I remember when we took apart our first family computer (15 years later...) the CPU lacked a heatsink also.

Trevor

 

[Cyparagon]

We had a computer once that had a 256kB (yes, kilobyte) hard disk. I can only guess at the processor... 286 perhaps? Ran DOS, prince of persia, and some chemistry program for my dad's work. late 80s IBM, ~$3000. Beeped with every computation. wiht teh uber.

 

[Doofus]

I remember my dad buying a Pentium II, 266, we celebrated. I was like 10.

 

[YGG]

I had like 7 of these mostly 233mhz, I donated them to my school. I think I still have an AMD K62 lying around. Not sure the clock.

 

[jwc]

I think I still have an AMD K62 lying around.

I have a few of those that I bought to test out the process of building a computing cluster. Mine were 366MHz IIRC.

 

[pseudolobster]

I have an AMD K7 on my keychain.. It was one of the very first of the batch, before they came up with the name Athlon for it.

My first computer was an 8088, we eventually upgraded to a 286 (which was incredibly powerful for its day, 8mhz, 1mb ram, 20mb hard drive (which was HUGE, most people didn't have a hard drive, instead they just used two 5" floppies)).. I still remember being awed by the CGA video card we bought (for $250) which was actually able to display colours (all four of them)!

Anyways, here at work we have an abundance of old useless processors.. I think we still have some socket 5 pentium 75's, as well as a bunch of socket 7 p133's and so forth.. We've been using them for target practice with pellet guns; Old ceramic CPU's shatter quite nicely. Our store opened in 1989, so I'm sure if I go digging around I could find some 286's and 386's.

</nostalgia>

 

[larrball]

Cool, I worked for 3m at the time they made the PII.
We made the cover (frount and back) and the pin's (on the side between the covers).
We also labled the holagram, and stamped the ink on the covers.
I have seen 10's of thousnds of them.. heheh

Hey lam, if you have a microscope.. take a look at the bottom part of the holagram--- realy look.. where the 2 tower's are... what do you see?

 

[lamborgini8]

Hey lam, if you have a microscope.. take a look at the bottom part of the holagram--- realy look.. where the 2 tower's are... what do you see?

I don't have a microscope... what's there?

Heres a picture of more slot 1 processors, not entirely sure what these ones are but unlike the P2 it has a heatsink and fan on it.

 

[bobhaha]

i have the same! i also have my old 486! remember the days where you could press the turbo button, to up the Hz of a pc! (not MHz) LOL.. good old days! that was my first pc ever! and i got a few P2's lying around from my experimental days with network topologies and building pc's! (i was only 13 at the time!)

this has brought bak good memories! thank you! -Adrian

 

[matrixcs]

omg.. pentium 2 processor!! classic!! hehehehe i still got 1 386 computer working,

 

[HanMan5000]

I remember my father bought one of the first computers that came out for 2500$.

 

[rpaloalto]

I to remember my Dad buying our second computer. Compaq 486SX 2MB 32MB HD, complete with Winblows 3.1.
I was so amazed at how it was more advanced then our old one. Now we could load programs off the new and hip 1.44Mb flopys. Not those old school 750k ones.

I think I saved my allowance for the whole summer. Just to buy a creative labs soundblaster card.

 

[pseudolobster]

I found a box full of old slot 1 processors at work today...

They're covered by at least a mm thick layer of dust..

I laid a few of them out on the desk, the box is still half full...