Question Which CPU was your very first one?

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Colif said:
Don't mention the dark ages before the internet, you will give me nightmares.
What is the difference between World Wide Web and the Internet cause Unless those BBS were peer to peer they were on some sort of internet.
I remember before any of this. No mobile phones, no personal computers. Monopoly and Risk were games that you played when there was nothing to do, now kids have so much choice and they choose to play Monopoly and Risk online. We have come so far?
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Meh, at 1977 when we moved into house where I live now, there was no phone in house yet. Cellphones was not invented yet (and was not a thing for people here till fall of USSR anyway). We got our landline connection 2 years later. Till that went out to street phone both when needed to call somewhere. Still our family was sort of privileged in comparison of people who lived in communal apartments and shared single landline connection between 10 strangers.

It was not that bad. Much more options for kids who didn't hesitated to get their hands dirty in good meaning. And lack of surveillance from parents who was busy with their things. Kids was obliged to go to school and return home in specified time, but otherwise they was left free on their own.
 
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woot said:
chernobyl went kaboom 8 months before i was born, and i was born only 500 km away, so maybe that explains some of my "abnormalities".
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Then I am even more "abnormal" because had a train ride through Gomel (near Chernobyl "zone") at same year 3 months after the gig happened. Twice.

RAIDGoblin said:
you can get an active PS2 to USB adaptor but these are sometimes hard to make work, the alternative is a company called unicomp that own the rights to the model M design and make new ones with USB
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My Model M came with AT DIN-5 connector.

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It was not compatible with newer PS/2 ports in motherboards from 1997 above. Particularly didn't worked with newer AT motherboards through any PS/2 to DIN adapter available around. So I was very reluctantly, but forced to part ways with my trusty Model M and get one of those new plastic crap ones.
 
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Krotow said:
My Model M came with AT DIN-5 connector.

It was not compatible with newer PS/2 ports in motherboards from 1997 above. Particularly didn't worked with newer AT motherboards through any PS/2 to DIN adapter available around. So I was very reluctantly, but forced to part ways with my trusty Model M and get one of those new plastic crap ones.
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such a shame 😕 if you still have it there might be a modification to make it work with a modern PS2?
 
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Krotow said:
My Model M came with AT DIN-5 connector.
It was not compatible with newer PS/2 ports in motherboards from 1997 above. Particularly didn't worked with newer AT motherboards through any PS/2 to DIN adapter available around. So I was very reluctantly, but forced to part ways with my trusty Model M and get one of those new plastic crap ones.
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Wow, I had a Chicony keyboard with exactly the same connector in my first PC (that had 486 CPU in 1995). But I managed to keep it for a very long time because I got an adapter that actually worked even with my previous MB (bought in 2014). And I only replaced it with a USB keyboard last year, so it worked for almost 25 years with no problems whatsoever (unless you count the lack of Win and Menu keys as a problem). It was still in a perfectly working order, but my new MB doesn't even have a PS/2, and I thought that trying to make it work through a combination of DIN-to-PS/2-to-USB would be too much.
 
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SamirD said:
Oh boy, time to show my age--Intel 80286 running at 10Mhz (yes, you read that right--10Mhz). We upgraded it to a 386dlc as well as a 486dlc and still have the machine.
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yep, I'm in the same age range. I may get the designations messed up here but i had to do an upgrade from a 386SX to a 386DX because my 386SX didn't meet the requirements to work with a quad speed CD-ROM drive
 
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Intel 8088. 4.77 RAGING Mhz. Guess who made it? My father purchased it for, I don't know, $5K with the discount? Or less? Not sure. I still have it. No idea if it still works. It was still working in the 90s. It presently holds down the carpet at the bottom of the closet.
 
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hardwareuser said:
Intel 8088. 4.77 RAGING Mhz. Guess who made it? My father purchased it for, I don't know, $5K with the discount? Or less? Not sure. I still have it. No idea if it still works. It was still working in the 90s. It presently holds down the carpet at the bottom of the closet.
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Threw out all PC XT related things at 2003 in general apartment cleaning. Though had Power Macintosh 7500 got from customer during one of my freelance jobs. At begin of 2000-s it became too slow even for Internet browsing so it turned into an utility box. Worked as doorstop, as Christmas tree stand etc. Finally got dumped in recycle yard at 2018.
 
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The very first CPU I had (actually my mons) was a NEC V20 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEC_V20 ) clone from "S!D Informática" a Brazilian company from the late 70's.



S!D was a private company backed by the Brazilian government that had the rights for the Sharp Corporation brand in Brazil. They used optical e electronic microscopy to clone the NEC V20 and later several Intel CPUs.



Three decades later I had the luck of having one of the same technicians that was part of the cloning processes as a professor at CEFET-MG university and when a mentioned that him he gave us a 4-hour lecture about it.
 
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Krotow said:
Then I am even more "abnormal" because had a train ride through Gomel (near Chernobyl "zone") at same year 3 months after the gig happened. Twice.



My Model M came with AT DIN-5 connector.

1920px-Cherry-Schneider-MF2-5-Pin-DIN-Connector.jpg


It was not compatible with newer PS/2 ports in motherboards from 1997 above. Particularly didn't worked with newer AT motherboards through any PS/2 to DIN adapter available around. So I was very reluctantly, but forced to part ways with my trusty Model M and get one of those new plastic crap ones.
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Some early KBs had a switch for XT/AT mode, only ATs could be adapted to PS/2.
Xt KBs had actually a sound chip for a controller.
 
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b4b5 said:
S!D was a private company backed by the Brazilian government that had the rights for the Sharp Corporation brand in Brazil. They used optical e electronic microscopy to clone the NEC V20 and later several Intel CPUs.
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Soviets did exactly the same. With KGB agencies in western countries as source of parts to examine.

CountMike said:
Some early KBs had a switch for XT/AT mode, only ATs could be adapted to PS/2.
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Worked with those switchable keyboards too. Unfortunately early Model M didn't had this switch.
 
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