I am one of those guys That just has to take stuff apart to see how it works. And since the first computer I ever had, have done so. I remember looking at that bad ass Pentium II 350 wondering how such a tiny thing could be responsible for so much fun and cool stuff I found on the internet. Altho back then it took a loooong time just to load a webpage up.
Watching it load line by line by line, and after a few minutes being able to see big beautiful pictures LOL
But What really got me into it was gaming with my buddies A21B and BRNR. Talk about lag time... fire a shot and wait to see it go across the screen. Whew Im glad they came up with fibre optics and high speed copper connections as now things are as they should be. Frag fest anyone?
Well that was my first CPU and since then Ive built many machines as well as fixed them for friends and others alike and have accumulated a lot of old CPUs. Then I discovered a website that only talked about vintage ones and how they were actually being collected by people like they were stamps or old coins and I got the bug to start gathering up and saving them as well and this is a result of that collecting. And of course the answer is yes I have bought alot of them but not all , at this point its probly around 1/4 saved and 3/4 bought.
Enjoy them as I do.