!!!!!!!!!It makes me cry to think how fast we dump our digital friends each year for a new modleIn 90 or so my dad got a PS2 and a mac performa 6214cd with a WHOPPING 1.2 gb HD. This was right before the Apple and the big deal was that the university was about to get their first PDP-11.And I added a Ethernet card to it 4 Y ago. Someone had written an 8080/CPM emulator that was also available to the assembly language students when they couldn’t get there hands on the IMSAI. I still have that old SE , and besieds NASTY screen burn its still a working computer. The power supply was larger and less electrically noisy, and the backplane was better designed. It was configured similarly (8080 CPU and 4k of SRAM) but it had a splashier front panel graphics and larger, bi-color paddle switches on the front panel.
Imsai 8080 Emulator Full Tool ToThen in the 99 I got a PC a AMD k62 with 3d now. Still have the HD from it. ( think of a kids version of electroncs workbench ) it had gates !! AND OR NOR ext so it was a VERY usefull tool to Get me in to electronics.![]() ![]() ![]() Heheh 98SE on a core I7 LOLS LOLS 2GB ram and a SSD I kinda want to see it run just for the heck of it. And the mini is X86 so one ov thease days. Any modern computer has plenty of overhead to run old SW in a VR. I kinda miss sim city 2000 right about now. But the HD is not in good shape. Ico mac os for parallelsBut I inherited ♽ad's ·love of gizmos, and someday I'll inherit ·his Imsai ·to add to my collection. My brother and I were underwhelmed at the toggle switch user interface, and we nicknamed it the "Clumsai". The rest is history.My Dad built an Imsai 8080 (the Poor Cousin (?) of the Altair 8080) made famous in "War Games". I was about to use my Timex for the first Firefighting Robot contest in 1994 when I saw the BASIC Stamp 1 in N&V. ·I'm saving them for "something good". Also learned the HARD way to check and double check the correct values in every memory location before hitting the execute button less we had to start all over again!! lol. I had the switches set up as octal and got to be very adept at programming via the switches. It was before the Altair box. Never got anywhere with that though. Copying between the two disk drives would have made a pile driver proud! The IMSAI 8080 when fully populated doubled nicely as a really good room heater!! The memory drew so much current that we had to add buss wire to the plus 5 volts and ground to help reduce the current spikes!!Wish I still had the box as they are now selling for north of $3,000.00 in the collectors market!!My first "attempt" at a computer was with a GodBout (Oakland Bay California surplus electronics store) 4004 that they generously called a "kit".
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