![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 scored a Pentium with MMX from 1997 the other day at the dump.... Yes, MMX TECHNOLOGY! lol
I should have kept my NEC V20 because even if it was specified for only 8 MHz, it ran perfectly with 12 MHz.
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.
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.
My V20 was still in my old PC when I donated it, but I still have the original 8088 around somewhere.
I have an Intel 80186 processor from 1986 manufactured under license by AMD. I salvaged it from a little known IBM clone machine called a Pronto. It was barely PC-DOS compatible but it did set the stage for modern PCs to come. I have it framed in a shadow box with a bunch of other CPUs from before Y2K. It's pretty cool and most people don't even know there was an 80186 in existence, much less one made by AMD.
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