{"id":993,"date":"2020-10-21T13:00:51","date_gmt":"2020-10-21T13:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.adrian-smith31.co.uk\/blog\/?p=993"},"modified":"2020-11-27T21:07:59","modified_gmt":"2020-11-27T21:07:59","slug":"found-a-collection-of-old-ceramic-cpus-exposing-the-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adrian-smith31.co.uk\/blog\/2020\/10\/found-a-collection-of-old-ceramic-cpus-exposing-the-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Found a collection of old ceramic CPU’s. Exposing the dies"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have a ton of crap I have collected over the years and I come across a bag of old CPU chips – early pentiums, some DEC alphas and some SUN ultrasparc chips that I had kept for some reason. There’s even the main VLSI chip from a Wang 2200 2nd generation system my dad’s work were still using until the late 1990’s. Seem as they are so old now I thought I’d crack them open and expose the dies to see what’s inside of them. Here’s some photos of them. Click on the photo for a description of what they are and where they came from.<\/p>\n