First post, by seanneko
I've taken up collecting old CPUs which are still in their original retail box, for example, this 486 overdrive:
Did standard (non overdrive) CPUs come in retail boxes back then, or were they only delivered to OEMs? What's the oldest Intel CPU that came in this sort of packaging?
From what I can gather, everything from Pentium onwards came in retail boxes, although which Pentium specifically I'm not sure (socket 4, etc).