For sale is a curated collection of five assembled and packaged Intel Memory and Microprocessor chips that are among the most important in the esteemed company’s history.  Four of them are from the first four years of the company’s existence (1968-1971), including the very first chip product that Intel ever made in 1969, 54 years ago.  The fifth is the CPU product which design became the template for a microprocessor legacy that still echoes in the company’s products today.  Four of these chips are presented in early versions of their packaging (White Ceramic with Gold Pins), making them rare and highly collectible.

These are the five iconic products collected here, all of which were industry-groundbreaking in their own way:

• Intel 3101 Bipolar Schottky 64-bit Static RAM - The World’s First Solid-State Memory Chip (April 1969) and Intel’s VERY FIRST PRODUCT: This is a VERY EARLY production version of the 3101 made in early-to-mid 1969, only months after the company’s founding the year before.  The chip is packaged in the RARE and highly collectible early package version, White Ceramic with Gray Traces {“Zebra Stripes”), a gold cover, and 16 gold pins. This chip is the centerpiece of this collection.

• Intel 1101 MOS 256-bit Static RAM - The World’s First Metal Oxide Semiconductor (MOS) Memory Chip (July 1969): The 1101 was Intel’s second product, introduced only 3 months after the 3101.  It appears here also in White Ceramic packaging (although without the Zebra Stripes), with a gold cover and 16 gold pins like its predecessor. 

• Intel 1103 1024-bit Dynamic RAM - The World’s First Dynamic RAM (DRAM) Chip (October 1970): The 1103 had its coming-out party a little more than a year later, and was the chip product that introduced the DRAM to the world, a circuit design that remains today (in orders of magnitude greater capacity and speed) a ubiquitous component of nearly every computing platform.  This chip is the only one here in a plastic package with 18 gold pins.

• Intel 1702 2048-bit EPROM - The World’s First UV-Erasable Electrically Programmable ROM (EPROM) Chip (September 1971): Still another year later, the 1702 EPROM made its debut, making programmed ROM reusable (and not requiring a ROM mask during die production).  The 1702 here is in a 24-gold pin white ceramic package with a transparent window (rather than a cover) over the chip die itself, necessary to allow UV exposure of the chip’s memory cells for program erasure.

• Intel 8080 8-bit Microprocessor - The Microprocessor That Launched the Microcomputer Industry (April 1974): The 8080 was not Intel’s first microprocessor, but it is the one most responsible for the dawn of the microcomputer industry.  The 8080 was designed into many of the Pre-IBM personal computers of the time (before they were even considered “personal”) and helped launch much of the PC ecosystem (such as Microsoft et. al.) we all came to know.  It is no accident that the main phone number for Intel's Corporate Headquarters to this day ends in -8080. The 8080 example here is a relatively early one, sporting a white ceramic package and gold cover with a new (for Intel at the time) 40-pin design.  

None of these vintage chips has been tested, so please do not consider them to be functional; this listing is aimed primarily at collectors.

These items would show very nicely in a framed display with information plaque.  If you are someone who works or did work in the chip industry, for Intel, or even someone who appreciates technology history, this is a great collection to honor your connection to it.  

This item comes from my smoke-free home.  Shipping is via USPS Priority Mail in the U.S. and through eBay’s Global Shipping Service to an international buyer.