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Vintage Chips I


I had a bit of macro fun with a mainboard of one of my favourite old computers last week. I have done this before, but not with the SX1, so here is a much sharper and detailed attempt. I also processed those in colour and black and white and will post the monochrome versions sometime later. This combination of chips should tell everyone who knows those old computers what machine this actually is! :-)

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Bronze Platter


Something unposted from last year – data storage, almost the old-fashioned kind.

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Belly Up


The backside of an AMD 486 DX4/100 CPU, circa 1995 :-).

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State of the Art


Well, state of the art in 1995 anyway – it’s the processor from my first PC! One thing hasn’t changed in almost twenty years: those Windows logos are still plastered everywhere :-).

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Dead Chips Society


Some old Commodore chips from my C64 and Amiga that didn’t stand the test of time and had to be replaced… the 8580 was the SID sound chip from my original C64-II, the 8372A was the Amiga Angus chip responsible for memory management and other stuff and the 8362R8 was the Amiga Denise graphics chip. I kept the broken ones when they were replaced with new chips, fortunately almost everything was socketed back then!

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Brains of a Friend


Some more ancient computer stuff, but not as ancient as the last photo.

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A Long, Long Time Ago…


Once upon a time, keyboards used to look like this :-).

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Chips #3


An unused photo from my Commodore 64 binge last month – I have no idea why I hadn’t posted this shot!

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Chips #2


I promise that this is the last one of these decidedly geeky macro photos – it’s a mainboard from a Commodore 64 :-). Each of these small chips in the foreground holds 8 kilobytes of RAM!

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Chips #1


Well, if I have that thing open anyway, why not do a little macro photography as well? :-)

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