Pentium Calculator

[rags]

I just threw away a still working AMD K6-2 500MHZ CPU, maybe i should have saved it, and used it to comb my cats. :wink

[carlos]

hi everybody

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.

About the pentium bug:
There is a urban legend (or it is net legend ?), about how the pentium got it's name, Since 8086, top brass at intel used the new chip to get its name using the formula New_chip_name = Old_Chip_name + 100, (80086 + 100 = 80186, 80186 + 100 = 80286 .....),  When the had to name the sucessor of  the 486 they got :eek 80486 + 100 = 80585.264859, :eek  after a full week meting, they fix the problem naming the chip, "Pentium"  :cheekygreen:  :green2

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

I had never seen this site you talk about, but in 1992 or 93, a colleage and me made keychains with IBM chips we pulled of old data entry terminals, ( I forgot it's name but they worked with floppies), they where 4 silicon chips in a single  substrate, covered with a aluminium shell, we removed the shell and cut the pins, then encased the chip (or more properly the substrate) in poliester resin, the only "feature" :wink, was that the chain hook was fragile and keep broken, but they werw cool !! even the girls asked about it.

Saludos

Carlos

[sbrown]

Yeesh! You call yourselves Geeks with P1's...

I still have a small cadre of V20s that I display with pride! ::)


Scott

[Bieb]

The Pentium actually got it's name because they couldn't copyright a number, and so competitors could call their processors 286s, 386s, etc.

I've heard of the division error, but not an addition error.  I tried to make a keychain out of it, but couldn't drill through the outside of it.  I finally just smashed it with a hammer and tried drilling from the inside out.  Couldn't even get through the inside, though...

[carlos]

The Pentium actually got it's name because they couldn't copyright a number, and so competitors could call their processors 286s, 386s, etc.

I've heard of the division error, but not an addition error. I tried to make a keychain out of it, but couldn't drill through the outside of it. I finally just smashed it with a hammer and tried drilling from the inside out. Couldn't even get through the inside, though...

hi Bieb
Yes yes yes YES !!! the truth is,  Pentium has a *division* error, not a sum one, and yes, intel can't copyright a number, but can do it with trademark "Pentium",  but is more fun (even if is false) the net legend of how the pentium got it's name.

regarding the pentium keychain, encase it in polyesther resin, its easier that drill it.

Saludos from Mexico
Carlos

[pbrennick]

And run the drill slower instead of faster for more 'byte.'  :lol

[AeroASM]

Once we took about six 486DXs and made a cluster running Linux. It was quite cool, seeing a pile of ancient machines groaning under the stress.

[shadow]

Harddrives are more fun (shiny)  I used to have a disassembled hard drive on my desk connected to a transformer on an unused switch... so when you turn the switch on, thinking its the light switch, a harddrive spinds up :)                               :eek

[Bieb]

Somewhere in my room is one of the disks out of a hard disk, but I doubt I'll ever find it.

[rags]

I still have a small cadre of V20s that I display with pride! ::)

That was my first computer Scott, it got me hooked on learning to program

[sbrown]

.....
That was my first computer Scott, it got me hooked on learning to program

I think that was my third computer (which I put into my robot in college, talk about nerdy -- lol).


Scott

[thomasantony]

I still have a small cadre of V20s that I display with pride! ::)

That was my first computer Scott, it got me hooked on learning to program

Hi,
    The one I am using now is my first computer :toothy :green2 :cheekygreen: . Its a Pentium II 850 MHz with 128 mB RAM, 40GB HDD, Samsung DVD Writer (Can write and read CD's,CDRWs,DVD+R/RW,DVD-R/RW etc.) , 1.44MB 3 1/2" Floppy drive :green2 running Windows 98SE

Thomas :U :cheekygreen: :green2 :bg :green2 :U

[thomasantony]

BTW,
   I found the link to the CPU keychain. Here it is:

http://www.overclockersclub.com/guides/cpu_keychain_guide.php

I have a non-working HD lying around. Any ideas on what to do with it? I also have a busted CD writer, a 64mB RAM module and a 56kbps PCI modem.

Thomas :U

[Bieb]

Smash it?  Once I removed the HDD from an old PC someone had thrown out and then took a crowbar to the whole thing.  Somewhat wasteful, but definately a good stress reliever

[thomasantony]

Hmm,
Maybe I can find some use for the motors and servos inside that. As for the RAM, it is too big for a necklace. I will have to figure out something

Thomas