Pentium Calculator

[Bieb]

I've got a spare Pentium 1 sitting around, and have nothing to put it in, and nothing to do with it (I've been using it to comb my hair recently).  So, I was wondering, just for kicks, could I somehow make a 4 function calculator out of it?  Or maybe even just an adding machine that could, say, let you store values into EAX and EBX, and then ADD them, and retrieve the result.  Anyone know how to go about doing this?

[ventsyV]

No. :(  Not if you combed your hair with it. The chances are it has gone bad. The legs are really sensitive and get broken or bend quite easily. But even if they are not, getting durt on them is almost as dangerous. Not to mention that even the smallest ESD  will kill your chip instantly.
I'm afraid that the best thing you can do with this chip is to leave it on your desk as proof of you geekiness  :P

[Vortex]

I've been using it to comb my hair recently

:cheekygreen:

[Ghirai]

the best thing you can do with this chip is to leave it on your desk as proof of you geekiness  :P

Damn, i have to get one too :P

[hutch--]

 :toothy

I have made it at last, I am  GEEK, I have a Pentium 1 sitting upside down on the top of one of the speaker boxes and its in perfect working order. A truly BLAZING 120 MH genuine Intel Pentium.

I blew up the last board that was any good for it when I shorted the power supply on the chassis, this was a spare as I have a few other 133 pentiums as well. A mate up the road just gace me a spare motherboard with a working Celeron and 256 meg of memory in it but I have not had time to set it up to play with it. I pulled the chip out of the socket to identify it but have not found a method to work out what its speed is yet. I don't intend to waste much time on it though.  :P

[UncannyDude]

Well, I have a couple of Pentium 100/133 to give assistence. Why I'm not happy?

[Bieb]

Well, some of the legs are bent, but I shouldn't need all of them, right?

[hutch--]

Bieb,

You must have really short hair but keep this in mind, if the fan still works, you could wire it up to 12 volts and use it as a small hair drier while you comb your hair with it.  :bg

[00100b]

 :lol

You could also remove the fan, wire it up and install it in the stuffing of your desk-chair, using it as a butt-warmer.

[Ghirai]

Or, if the pins are not too sharp, you can scratch your back with it :U

[thomasantony]

Hi,
     I don't remember the site but I saw a guide on making a CPU keychain somewhere. That will be truely geeky. :lol:

Thomas Antony :U

[Maven]

Hi,
     I don't remember the site but I saw a guide on making a CPU keychain somewhere. That will be truely geeky. :lol:

Thomas Antony :U

I prefer a CPU neckless myself

[carlos]

I've got a spare Pentium 1 sitting around, and have nothing to put it in, and nothing to do with it (I've been using it to comb my hair recently). So, I was wondering, just for kicks, could I somehow make a 4 function calculator out of it? Or maybe even just an adding machine that could, say, let you store values into EAX and EBX, and then ADD them, and retrieve the result. Anyone know how to go about doing this?

Hi all

If the chip is a true Pentium I, I recomend it for

     * a comb
     * a garden rake
     * a coffe pot warming element
I don't recommend it for a 4 banger calculator !!!!!, why? you could end with results like 2+2=3.9989787926524  :toothy  :lol
iin fact I 've read in the net (sadly I forgot where) :wink that intel intended to make it a calculator chip, but once it found to be defective (before introduction!!!) marketing sell them as "The next generation processor" :wink  :wink  :wink

saludos
Carlos

[Bieb]

I've never heard of an addition glitch.  Whun I yanked it out of the computer with a friend, we had a little private joke about asking for 2/1 and getting 1.98342876849685623.

[pbrennick]

Bieb,
You can not be serious.  You have never heard of the Pentium I bug?  It was really famous and Lotus had a lot of fun dancing around the problem as I recall.  It really put Lotus in a bind and the finance department where I was working as a consultant drove me crazy to the point that I grew to dislike that chip big time!

Paul