Integrated Circuit Collection

This is a walkthrough of my chip collection, featuring a wide range of IC types and packages. Some more noteworthy items include the Intel 1101 and 4004, Intel and Texas Instruments bubble memory, and various mysterious HP chips. The chips are being stored in Westinghouse "reusable conductive containers".

Notes: The TI bubble memory is 92 kilobits, and the Zilog piggyback microcontroller is a Z8603RS, not a Z8602RS as I mis-state in the video. The Z8602 is a leadless carrier type. Also, the 1101 is Intel's second device, and their first MOS device. The 3101 bipolar RAM slightly predates the 1101.

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Science & Technology

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• Intel
• 4004
• 1101
• AMD
• Mostek
• HP
• Hewlett
• Packard
• IC
• integrated
• circuit
• chip
• microprocessor
• logic
• eprom
• bubble
• memory

[artifactingreality]

are the cavity lids really made from gold? Would seem to be a waste of money.

[hp2114b]

@artifactingreality Anything gold colored in the video is plated in real gold. The gold provides corrosion resistance, and is an indicator of higher quality manufacturing.

[douro20]

Those Motorola chips in the round packages could be MMICs (Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuit). They are generally found in high-frequency electronics sealed in a metal container. Motorola and Raytheon were the real pioneers of that type of device- they are usually GaAs type.

[hp2114b]

@douro20 Since we recorded this video, we have discovered what the Motorola chips are - they are a second-source production of Western Electric hybrid logic ICs used in the SAGE defense computer. They contain a single hybrid IC wafer with the silicon elements deposited on a tantalum substrate. The devices are single-chip replacements for an earlier device family that was packaged in gold cans and consisted of discrete transistor and diode dies interconnected with gold wire.

[Icebitten]

Very nice! i found your video cuz i wanna start a IC collection too ^^ i realy suk a this and i would like to know how do we take off those things when they are mounted to a card

[hp2114b]

Virtually all of my chips are either new or were socketed. I try to avoid ones that have been soldered, except with very rare chips, and then it's often better to just keep the whole board intact. The best way to get them off is with a desoldering iron or a heat gun, but it is impossible to remove all of the tin from the leads. Only very collectible or very useful chips retain much value in a desoldered state.

[spy320net]

awesome

[Quaaludedude714]

I been collecting for years , Thank You so much for this Tour , Please keep them & pass them on to a child or relative who will promise not to scrap them !

I have 150 Lb's of Chips a lot of the same ones you have , you do have some I do not have that are rare like those HP's & Fairchilds , keep up the Collecting :) QC

[kiyotewolf]

you gave us a tour of your chips.. next, give us a tour of your SALSA!

[TheEPROM9]

Just think of the lovely computer/electronic projects you could do with all those chips. I would love to have a collection like that. The EPROM's and EPROM microcontrollers are the most interesting in my opinion, but all the chips are interesting.

[jayguy173]

open a museum

[leakesonasucs]

i've been taking apart processors in other words i know how to get that piece of silicon out of ceramic and plastic