Having each processor sitting on a nice photo print of the die would make for a nice display. Perhaps something similar could be done to show how process density improved? Put scaled versions of the die pictures on top of each other? -J On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 12:45 PM, Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
I agree. We should start a history of Intel processors section in the museum. Let's put it in the artifact of the month section.
This stemmed from a joke thread (silly replies to my test message, which was legitimate), but the idea has been floated before and it's a decent one.
Jeff J. put several processors into a small desktop-sized display case several years ago. We didn't display it because at the time there was no extra space (in the old museum) nor was there context -- a bunch of chips in a case means zilch to the public. Nowadays the museum has a much higher bar.
Probably the best way to do this is with a wall-mounted exhibit (possibly in the hallway) and a slide show to explain the context. The slide show would also have content about what came before chips. We could easily have a nice wall-mounted exhibit showing a timeline from tubes to transistors to chips, along with some in-between technologies such as the micro-module (which Camp Evans was involved in testing).
I will give this some more thought after we finish the modern history exhibit.
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