computer stuph

[arethinn]

So, my dad was going through his drawers of random computer parts that we have built up over the years of buying, building, upgrading, and packratting. Check this out:



That's an Intel 8088 CPU, 4.77 MHz. We also found the 8087 math co-processor that accompanied it in the first PC we had in the house (an IBM XT clone, back when that term was still meaningful), before which we had had only a Commodore 64 and a VIC 20. What this boils down to is you are looking at part the guts of the computer I used in junior high and early high school. *shrugs*

PS. I am back home in the Bay area now. Work Tuesday. Ugh.

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[ungarsfragile.livejournal.com]

What's notable is that the logo on the chip is that of Advanced Micro Devices (http://www.amd.com/), Intel's current largest competitor, who was then producing intel chips under license. If it wasn't for Intel's support then, AMD would have never gotten large enough to support its own R&D division to stick it to them now...

ah, the wonders of business.