My Bouncing New Baby Boy
erco
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Sorta kinda... Old timers will recognize this. I inherited my Dad's IMSAI 8080 ten years ago, but the faceplate was missing. They are SHOCKINGLY expensive so it took me ten years to pony up $600 for this mint unit. (Don't tell the wife!)
Old timers will appreciate this. AFAIK this thing is not particularly useful, just a nifty part of computer history. But I owe it to Dad to try to get it working... another colossal time sink. Hundreds of oxidized switch & PCB contacts to give flaky performance, but that's just part of the "fun", amirite?
Will be dividing my "free time" between resurrecting this, the dead Corvair, and a newly-acquired dead Heathkit SB-104A, another piece of electronic history. No shortage of dead projects, please pray for their electronic souls!
Old timers will appreciate this. AFAIK this thing is not particularly useful, just a nifty part of computer history. But I owe it to Dad to try to get it working... another colossal time sink. Hundreds of oxidized switch & PCB contacts to give flaky performance, but that's just part of the "fun", amirite?
Will be dividing my "free time" between resurrecting this, the dead Corvair, and a newly-acquired dead Heathkit SB-104A, another piece of electronic history. No shortage of dead projects, please pray for their electronic souls!
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Thanks but my Baby is not for sale.
Maybe I can convert the IMSAI into an electronic ignition for the Corvair. Whatever the max processor speed is becomes my rev limiter.
Actually that was about what I got for my whole setup sold off in the late '80s. Had Z80 cpu, tossed in the original 8080 cpu in the deal, maxed memory, 3P+S, A/D board, and two twin 8" dsdd floppies........ wish I still had it. Just for the cool factor.....
Now I'll let everyone speculate on that one, and congratulate you on your good fortune.
Incidentally back in the day, someone actually spun up a BBS on one of those S100 boxes. The author of the CBBS 3.6.2 system used an Altair in Z80 mode to run it, which confirms the other part there.
Maybe if you paid a bit more attention to the meme he posted?
Unlike you, @erco understands humor.
But you don't understand mine. I know @erco groks mine.
But what's with that cougar destroying garbage cans in his neighborhood?