First post, by Major Jackyl
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Hey all. I would like to start a topic on CPU packaging and containers. I've always loved how cool the boxes the CPUs have come in over the years and have always saved the box .
Today, I was rifiling through my CPU connection and thought "damn, I don't have the box for ANY of these..." and as a continuation "damn, I've never even SEEN the box for most of these". I was just a kid when I was easily able to acquire P2/P3 era PCs and parts, so as you'd expect, never new. I dumpster dove CPU boxes from (at the time) BRAND NEW pentium 4 HTs and was in awe at them as they lorded over my wimpy CPU collection: "I'll have you someday". Ok . So now, I have that Pentium 4 HT now, but lost the box when I was still a kid.
Looking at my favorite processors (and with internet now), I see that many have really cool boxes, but can't be found, even as just a box. Specifically, I suppose, I'm talking about the Pentium 2 MMX. I love these things and have them displayed everywhere, but I have no box to really ANNOUNCE their presence. The late generation even looks like a Pentium 3, so it's hard to tell I have both sitting about.
Ah yes. I'm being quite scatterbrained, but I'm getting there. I was wondering if anybody has flat scans (or can make some) of these boxes for reproduction? I've honestly never opened a new SLOT 1 CPU, so I don't know what the packaging inside was like, but I'd like to reproduce that as well.
I'm also wondering how you all feel about your CPU boxes? Keep all of them? Too many to deal with, so recycle?
I know a business would probably not even be thinking about that and chucking everything. My life was poured into owning these CPUs, so I want to see that glorious thing somewhere near the system it's in.
I was 12 when I bought my first CPU, a CeleronD 2.4Ghz (478). And the box got lost when I moved. Much damn. Still have the CPU, though.
Hey, if anything, could we get a bunch of box pictures going?
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