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Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 23:50:47 -0700
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From: "Bill Anderson" To: "Multiple recipients of list cpsr-history@cpsr.org" Subject: CM> IMSAI 8080 and early word processors
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Sender: "Bill Anderson" Subject: Re: CM> S-100 microcomputers
I still own an IMSAI 8080, serial no. 25. When I first purchased the
machine in I think February 1973 or 74, it was the Altair/Imsai bus.
That became the Altair/Imsai/Polymorphic bus. I was at the meeting on
the bus standard that changed the name to S-100 bus. Wayne Green was not
to happy about it and blasted in the decision in Byte magazine.
BTW:) My IMSAI still works. However, since I no longer have an ASCII
terminal, I have to use a my desktop or laptop (both Pentiums) as a
terminal. My machine has the first Dutronic 8K memory boards in it, plus
a couple Vector graphic 16K boards. My system went from Teletype and
papertape, to video monitor with a Cherry Keyboard, to ASCII terminal.
Along with paper tape, I tried the audio cassette and then went to 8in
floppy disks. Some of the parts in that machine probably came from
Tarbell. In those days, one had to be could at solder to build a PC.
As for old word processing software. I think I still have an original
copy of Electric Pencil floating around.
Although the machine suffered many upgrades, I continued to use it on a
regular basis until about 1983. Altough I know longer have them, I used
to own an Onyx Z80 with a Corvus shoebox harddisk, and an Onyx Z8000
running the first version of UNIX released by Bob Marsh. Of course, I
just got rid of my 300 baud acoustic coupler on the last move.
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I still own an IMSAI 8080, serial no. 25. When I first purchased the
machine in I think February 1973 or 74, it was the Altair/Imsai bus.
That became the Altair/Imsai/Polymorphic bus. I was at the meeting on
the bus standard that changed the name to S-100 bus. Wayne Green was not
to happy about it and blasted in the decision in Byte magazine.
BTW:) My IMSAI still works. However, since I no longer have an ASCII
terminal, I have to use a my desktop or laptop (both Pentiums) as a
terminal. My machine has the first Dutronic 8K memory boards in it, plus
a couple Vector graphic 16K boards. My system went from Teletype and
papertape, to video monitor with a Cherry Keyboard, to ASCII terminal.
Along with paper tape, I tried the audio cassette and then went to 8in
floppy disks. Some of the parts in that machine probably came from
Tarbell. In those days, one had to be could at solder to build a PC.
As for old word processing software. I think I still have an original
copy of Electric Pencil floating around.
Although the machine suffered many upgrades, I continued to use it on a
regular basis until about 1983. Altough I know longer have them, I used
to own an Onyx Z80 with a Corvus shoebox harddisk, and an Onyx Z8000
running the first version of UNIX released by Bob Marsh. Of course, I
just got rid of my 300 baud acoustic coupler on the last move.
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