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Got an older Intel CPU die from ebay to look at under the microscope. Grinding/dissolving to expose a die from a CPU was too much trouble, so I found someone selling these that never made it to being packaged.
K6-2 CPU (not sure what speed), 32M ram. The actual ATSC board was a double-wide PCI board joined to an ISA board with a jumper.
The CPU was not connecting properly and the computer kept turning off. This it, with the heatsink and fan on top.
Intel Pentium G3220 dual-core CPU, Asus H87-Pro motherboard, and 8GB of Kingston HyperX RAM. A snappy lower-cost combination.
Got an older Intel CPU die from ebay to look at under the microscope. Grinding/dissolving to expose a die from a CPU was too much trouble, so I found someone selling these that never made it to being packaged.
Got an older Intel CPU die from ebay to look at under the microscope. Grinding/dissolving to expose a die from a CPU was too much trouble, so I found someone selling these that never made it to being packaged.
Part of my (some people might call it junk) vintage chip collection.
The Zilog Z80 CPU, Made from 1976 onwards. This one is probably from some time in the 80's, so probably 25'ish years old.
Back in the day when I was a regular hardware hacker type, I had a spare ceramic 68000 CPU on my bench, a few years old and no longer state of the art by any means. For some reason, my soldering iron was turned up to 800F. With an evil gleam in my eye, I dropped some solder on the gold lid of the case and heated it until the thing smoked. The lid - much to my surprise - suddenly slid off. I kept it all these years, and this is a scan taken with an Epson 4870 scanner. If you have noticed the scratch at the bottom of the chip, all I can say is I didn't say I kept it carefully...