![Salvaged this little guy from a computer we finally decommissioned a few months ago, a souvenir from an age past [4096x3072 - 3.87MB]](https://files.catbox.moe/7uxmiq.jpg){kind=link}
I remember building computers with those. TWELVE MEGAHERTZ MAN! I was thinking of doing a shadowbox of old processors for the wall....
I was thinking of doing a shadowbox of old processors for the wall....
My uni did something like that. Kind of neat to check it out while waiting for the lab instructor to make it up the stairs.
I replaced the 8088 in my Toshiba 1100 with the VC 20 and added the co-processor. Then soldered memory chips on top of the existing ones. I could use the upper memory area in DOS, but I could not convince the DMA chip to switch between the upper and lower 512K, so loading a driver from floppy disk into the UMB was not possible. I gave up, discovered ray tracing and got a new hobby.
That sounds like a wild ride, man. You should make a post with more of the details if you have the time. I'd love to read about it.
I bought some books about 8080 hardware and started with a photocopy of the motherboard so I could highlight the chips and the conductive traces I had identified. But I never took pictures of the process and the notebook is long gone. I went into programming instead, was proud to have created the first film sequence of a ray-traced glass ball smoothly moving on a checker board on a 8088 because I invented run length encoding, not knowing that this was a standard algorithm for the rest of the world.
get a room already, you filthy processor porn degenerates
Lol! I read this comment after posting that I have a shadow box of old processors! You should definitely make one. Mine is a great reminder of how great things were back in the wild west of computing technology.
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