CPU Duke
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CPU collector and enthusiast. Microscopy of vintage microelectronics, x86 and more. Please visit also my Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube channel for more…
Germany
Joined December 2021
It’s a #wrap! The top drawer shows a random shiny collection of #CPUs visible always through the glass top. This is followed by 6 further drawers carrying #2 Intel, #3 Cyrix/IBM/TI, #4 Motorola, #5 AMD, #6 various ICs, #7 Intel Server CPUs. Now I have space again! 2/2
It’s a wrap! Late November I started a new project with the aim to rearrange my large #CPU collection. I set up a cupboard with several drawers to now display the #CPU collection #horizontally. I still use my wooden cases for vertically exhibiting some chips. 1/2
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The #3dfx chip set consists of the FBI (frame buffer unit) and the TMU (texture mapping unit), both with each 2MB EDO RAM - known as the SST-1. Did you know that this codename stands for the three founders Ross Smith, Scott Sellers, Gary Tarolli?
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Minimal: art in its purest form, at the heart of the Bourse de Commerce in Paris
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#Voodoo 1, pure 3D accelerator card by Orchid called “Righteous 3D“. Standard 4MB EDO RAM, but with special mechanical relays for switching into 3D mode making a nice clicky noise!
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The card works nicely in my Win95 setup. 3DMark99 ends with 850 points. Quake2 VoodooGL showed 20.7 FPS in the timedemo. All benchmarks in 640x480x16bit color
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#Voodoo 1, pure 3D accelerator card by Orchid called “Righteous 3D“. Standard 4MB EDO RAM, but with special mechanical relays for switching into 3D mode making a nice clicky noise!
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#Halloween period started, so it is time to test all my #Voodoo cards… I hope they all work fine…
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Where was the M7 CPU produced? M7 was the Cyrix codename for their 486, but Cyrix was fabless… This die is from a STMicroelectronics package…
#weekendDieShot Miraculously, the cap of this 80486 DX2-66 from #ST fell off… a good occasion to have a closer look!
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#weekendDieShot Miraculously, the cap of this 80486 DX2-66 from #ST fell off… a good occasion to have a closer look!
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What are use cases for 30 pin SIMM modules with 16 MB each in 1995? a) Just 64MB RAM, b) upgrade your Sound Blaster AWE to 32MB for great sound font experience, c) 64MB cache on your VLB HD controller, d) 64MB on your SIMM to PS2 RAM adapter… What would you do?
Ah… 30 pin SIMM modules… From 1MB (standard)… …to 4MB (most wanted)… …to 16MB (unheard of). The latter brings you to 64 MB system memory if you have 4 modules!!! Which one did you have?
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It´s #NationalHoliday! 🇩🇪 Hello Germany, happy 3rd of October...🥳 In the last years, I discovered awesome #silicondoodle #art made in #Germany.... Here is my current best-of selection: Freiburg (Micronas/ITT), Hamburg (Philips), Düsseldorf (Siemens), Dresden (ZMD).
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#WeekendDieShot Harris MI-7641-5 (HM7641) 4K PROM with 1978 date code. Interesting “double H“ Harris logo… love it!
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Ah… 30 pin SIMM modules… From 1MB (standard)… …to 4MB (most wanted)… ��to 16MB (unheard of). The latter brings you to 64 MB system memory if you have 4 modules!!! Which one did you have?
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The #valkyrie
It‘s a #Valkyrie! The plane is actually an experimental Mach 3 aircraft from the 1960s called Valkyrie XB-70. AMD chose even a NASA picture for their technical datasheet - see link. https://t.co/BPgiYwsMYP
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It‘s a #Valkyrie! The plane is actually an experimental Mach 3 aircraft from the 1960s called Valkyrie XB-70. AMD chose even a NASA picture for their technical datasheet - see link. https://t.co/BPgiYwsMYP
It’s a MACH! ✈️ #AMD designed chips in the 1990s using a 0.8micron process and called them MACH-Macro Array CMOS High-density. A century earlier, E. Mach came up with the Mach unit describing the supersonic speed of aircrafts. So the designers left a speedy jet on this silicon.
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Macro shot of the Macro Array CMOS High-density (MACH) IC. The #silicondoodle is in the left lower corner.
It’s a MACH! ✈️ #AMD designed chips in the 1990s using a 0.8micron process and called them MACH-Macro Array CMOS High-density. A century earlier, E. Mach came up with the Mach unit describing the supersonic speed of aircrafts. So the designers left a speedy jet on this silicon.
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