I dunno why, but I find it to be sorta special. Like, this chip was the precursor to the Pentium, the chip that really set the personal computer explosion on fire.
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Doesn't count as an Apple product, but I have an original 486 chip :-)
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Funny, I performed that exact same experiment once. I can corroborate your results. A 6502 (actually in some early Apple products) gets lazily warm over time. How bad could a '486 be, I thought...
I would not like to see a Pentium 4 in a first generation MacBook Pro case. Then the fry an egg on the bottom of the MacBook would be true.
I go dumpster diving at my university and have found tons of old chips. You can see them on my blog: http://www.arunhasablog.com/2008/12/02/e-waste-hunting/
It is so funny to think that many of those chips are much weaker than the one in the iPhone. haha
It is so funny to think that many of those chips are much weaker than the one in the iPhone. haha
I remember working with an old-school mainframe programmer that "held out" buying his first PC until the first Pentium (P5 @ 60MHz) systems hit the market in 1993. He actually believed by "investing" in a P5 system he'd have a system that he wouldn't have to replace for at least another 10 or 15 years.
I have a few nostalgic components myself, including a 486DX-33 chip. It probably still works, but the motherboard it came with (in my dearly departed first PC, a Quantex) is long gone; the soldered-on CMOS battery finally cracked open and corroded the mobo.
I'm probably the only fool I know that paid near full price for a Pentium-83 Overdrive chip to upgrade the DX-33. Talk about too much buck and not enough bang! I could have upgraded to a DX4-100 for cheaper, but there was some game that I was wanting to run that required a chip that identified itself as a Pentium. It's now mounted in an old AST Advantage 575 that, last I knew, still runs. I haven't fired it up in a while; maybe I should.
ADDENDUM: ...Well, whaddaya know, the old AST still boots! Time for some oldskool DOOM!
I'm probably the only fool I know that paid near full price for a Pentium-83 Overdrive chip to upgrade the DX-33. Talk about too much buck and not enough bang! I could have upgraded to a DX4-100 for cheaper, but there was some game that I was wanting to run that required a chip that identified itself as a Pentium. It's now mounted in an old AST Advantage 575 that, last I knew, still runs. I haven't fired it up in a while; maybe I should.
ADDENDUM: ...Well, whaddaya know, the old AST still boots! Time for some oldskool DOOM!
LOL - made me chuckle - am having a crappy day and that has cheered me up no end
pac
LOL - made me chuckle - am having a crappy day and that has cheered me up no end
pac
Good
(about the cheering up, not the day)AppleMatt