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I am the one who have done all these chip photos.

I am still looking to find soviet 286 (КР1847ВМ286), but it seems it is extremely rare. If anyone have one - contact me ASAP :-)

Just to be fair - I didn't find that soviet "clones" were clones - layout was changed significantly. Centralized planning demanded 100% compatible chips to make near-100% compatible computers, that's the root of all evils.

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Thanks for all the work. That was an amazing read.

I've always wondered how people map chip-die photos into something like this: http://chip-architect.com/news/2007_02_19_Various_Images.htm...

or this: http://chip-architect.com/news/2003_09_21_Detailed_Architect...

I can see how figuring out the cache and the internal buses might be doable, but the rest... Any insights?

Maybe interesting:

http://www.righto.com/2013/01/a-small-part-of-6502-chip-expl...

http://www.visual6502.org/

Awesome work. A simple suggestion: make clear that the labels point to the right picture, say with a horizontal line separating them, since the description for the next image is right below the one before it.

Great work. Did you ever see these? http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/creatures/pages/russians.html

Also, there are a few collectors over here: http://www.cpu-world.com/forum/

Maybe they can get you a lead on one.

What sort of camera rig did you use? The pictures are lovely.

It's metallographic microscope BM-158J with some unnamed 5 megapixel camera attachment. To make large photo I had to take 20-100 shots, and then stitch them into 1 large photo.

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