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What’s Missing?
Four-Phase Systems: 1969-1981 (click to enlarge What’s Missing from this Four-Phase Systems family portrait? Hopefully the lost member arrives this week. Anyone remember Four-Phase?The post What’s...
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Has the FDIV bug met its match? Enter the Intel FSIN bug
Intel A80501-60 SX753 – Early 1993 containing the FDIV bug In 1994 Intel had a bit of an issue. The newly released Pentium processor, replacement for the now 5 year old i486 had a bit of a problem, it...
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Monsanto: Bringers of the Light
Monsanto MCT2 – LED Based Opto-coupler This little chip, dated from 1973, is part of the history of what we are surrounded by, LEDs. And they have an unlikely and somewhat surprising beginning. The...
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I Just Poured Water on my Scanner….
Chip that come into the museum are all scanned on a Canon 5600F flatbed scanner. It has a good (there is some better though) depth of field, and its fast. Typically chips are scanned at 300dpi, or...
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The 16-bit Transistor level MegaProcessor
16-bit MegaProcessor ALU James Newman in Cambridge (UK) is creating a 16-bit discrete Processor Design called the Megaprocessor (there is nothing micro about it). Not a VLSI version either, a 16-bit...
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OSIRIS-REx: Bringing Back Some Bennu
OSIRIS-Rex: RAD750 to Bennu The Apollo Group carbonaceous asteroid Bennu is a potential Earth impactor, with a 0.037% likelihood of hitting earth somewhere between 2169 and 2199. Bennu is thought to...
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VLSI: What is this THING?
VLSI VY12338 THING UA-JET238-01 – Made in 1997 VLSI was started back in 1979 by several former Fairchild employees, 2 of which had previously founded Synertek, a connection that becomes important later...
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Intel’s Chipped Chips
Early Intel 8080A processor (no date code) chipped and used in a Uni kit Typically when collecting something, be it coins, cars or CPU’s having the most pristine unblemished example is highly...
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Mainframes and Supercomputers, From the Beginning Till Today.
This article is provided by guest author max1024, hailing from Belarus. I have provided some minor edits/tweaks in the translation from Belarusian to English. Mainframes and Supercomputers, From the...
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The End is Near (of the year) – A Look Back at Y2K
AMD Y2Kids Career Day – K6-2 Custom Painted Think back 19 years, the year is 1999 and in just a few days the world is apparently coming to an end due to programmers of the 60’s and 70’s deciding to...
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