FesterBlatz wrote:I've considered selling it on eBay but the fear of it being destroyed for gold discourages me from doing so. I pulled this from a working Gateway 2000 at work YEARS ago when we were scrapping old PCs by the dozens...long before the current "retro" phase kicked in. I regret tossing so many now rare machines including what today would be considered beautiful Gateway Pentium PRO workstations. Back then, anything in a white case and connected to a CRT meant it was junk...
Who knows, maybe I'll stumble on a suitable motherboard for it someday.
I would keep it, they won't lose their value. Owning rare(ish) CPUs is safer than letting your bank handle your money or buying stocks! 😀
TOP TEN NEW INTEL SLOGANS FOR THE PENTIUM
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9.9999973251 It's a FLAW, Dammit, not a Bug
8.9999163362 It's Close Enough, We Say So
7.9999414610 Nearly 300 Correct Opcodes
6.9999831538 You Don't Need to Know What's Inside
5.9999835137 Redefining the PC--and Mathematics As Well
4.9999999021 We Fixed It, Really
3.9998245917 Division Considered Harmful
2.9991523619 Why Do You Think They Call It *Floating* Point?
1.9999103517 We're Looking for a Few Good Flaws
0.9999999998 The Errata Inside
Top Ten Excuses Why QT Emulation Didn't Find the Pentium FPU Bug
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10) Intel couldn't afford to buy enough QT hardware in order to verify beyond 5 decimal places.
9) Actually did find the problem but didn't want to say anything because, "We're shy."
😎 Spent more time verifying QT hardware than Intel hardware.
7) Decided it was more important to verify all the obscure undocumented opcodes that nobody knows about than it was to see if the math was actually correct.
6) Figured if there were any problems with the chip could always fix it by doing a slingshot around the sun and going back in time like in Star Trek.
5) Intel used a 486 PC to check the math on the Pentium emulator.
4) Money Intel spent for QT emulators actually went to buy hookers and booze for Andy Grove.
3) Didn't do an exhaustive check of all the math functions. Got as far as 2 + 2 = 5 and figured that was good enough.
2) Pentium testing consisted mostly of playing tetris until a score of 100,000 was achieved.
1) There was an FPU in that thing?
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