On 2020-02-11 11:51, Ethan Dicks via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
On Sun, Feb 9, 2020 at 11:45 AM Adam Michlin via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
VCF is working on a historical exhibit of CPUs (not really support chips at this point). Literally just the CPUs.
Cool.
What should we have at the bare minimum? 4004, 8008, 8088, 8086, 6502, Z80, 6800, 6809...?
1802.
What should we have if we have more space? 80x86, 680x0, Sparc, MIPS, Power, Alpha, ARM, Itanium...?
Is the exhibit meant to be microprocessors, or CPUs in general? If the latter, I think you need separate "tracks" based maybe on market segment. I second the notion that this is liable to become cluttered if not limited in scope and/or separated into categories. Like, I can donate or loan an early POWER or a VAX 6000 CPU board (they are both awesome looking artifacts) but now you've got large things next to very small things. ;) My $0.02 : If this is going to run alongside the 6502 theme of VCF East, focus on microprocessors including the 6502, ending somewhere around the 80386 or early RISC timeframe, and then fast-forwarding from there to near present day. You can fill it and grow it out later, but with literal exponential growth it's hard to take in the entirety of 50 years in one go. -- Jameel Akari