Earliest example of overclocking processor

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Nomad
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Earliest example of overclocking processor

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So I read something earlier that got me thinking, what was the earliest practical report of overclocking a cpu?
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This is talking about competitions that happened 1980-1981

I figure it has to be one of the earliest examples. According to this guys and girls were overclocking their 6502s and z80s from a very early period.
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Re: Earliest example of overclocking processor

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Overclocking is surely one of those things that’s been going on as long as processors have existed. The seventies was all hobbyist home computing... I don’t remember any overclocking in Hackers (the book) but there’s this:
https://dfarq.homeip.net/tag/chuck-peddle/
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